US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Control device for vehicle for electric travel section management" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,190, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for vehicle for electric travel section management" was invented by Yuki Yamada (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second ECU of the control device generates second vehicle position information based on the look-ahead information and the first vehicle position information sent at a predetermined timing, and generates a traveling plan such that electric traveling is performed in a specific section, based on the second vehicle position information and the look-ahead information. In determination about the entrance and the exit for ...