US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Vehicle with engine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,096, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle with engine" was invented by Akito Uchida (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle, with an engine, includes an engine control unit configured to control the engine in a circuit mode in which a traveling performance of the vehicle is improved, on a basis of a request transmitted from a portable terminal, when the portable terminal operated by a user of the vehicle determines that a current position of the vehicle equipped with the engine is in a circuit, wherein the engine control unit is configured to reject switching to the circuit ...