US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 24 for "Electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,332, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electric vehicle" was invented by Akiko Nishimine (Susono, Japan), Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Yoshio Itou (Susono, Japan), Hiroyuki Amano (Susono, Japan), Tatsuya Imamura (Okazaki, Japan), Hiroaki Ebuchi (Hadano, Japan) and Hiroaki Kodera (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electric vehicle according to the present disclosure calculates motor torque using an MT vehicle model simulating an MT vehicle having a manual transmission and an internal combustion engine. In the first operation mode, an operation amount of a pseudo-clutch pedal ...