ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,094, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for internal combustion engine" was invented by Shuya Ikesue (Toyota, Japan), Hibiki Ueura (Toyota, Japan), Kazuhiro Uehara (Kariya, Japan), Hiroyuki Shirokisawa (Toyota, Japan), Tomohiro Saito (Okazaki, Japan), Ryoma Yanagida (Chiryu, Japan), Hajime Osuka (Nukata-gun, Japan), Daisuke Murakami (Toyota, Japan), Hayato Tsutsui (Toyota, Japan) and Toshinobu Mizuno (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device of the internal combustion engine calculates the target rotational speed so that the target rotational speed increases ...