US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Independent right-left wheel driving vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,277, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Independent right-left wheel driving vehicle" was invented by Koichi Katayama (Okazaki, Japan), Koichi Okuda (Toyota, Japan) and Atsushi Tabata (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature detecting unit for detecting the temperature of the left electric motor and the temperature of the right electric motor, a temperature determination unit for determining that the temperature of one of the detected temperatures is outside the predetermined temperature range, a driving force limiting unit for reducing driving torque of the other electric mot...