ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,377, issued on June 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electrified vehicle having control device that performs offset learning process" was invented by Yu Watanabe (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "ECU performs a process including: a step of determining whether or not the current value of the value indicating the state of the lid is a value indicating the open state; a step of determining whether or not the previous value of the value indicating the state of the lid is a value indicating the closed state; a step of performing an offset learning process if the current value is a value indicating the ...