US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,563, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Ryosuke Tsukamoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: an engine; auxiliary equipment that is driven by the engine; a display device; and a control device. The control device includes: an engine control unit that controls the engine in such a manner that an actual idle speed of the engine in an idle state becomes a target idle speed that changes with a load of the auxiliary equipment on the engine; an acquisition unit that acquires the actual idle speed; a change determination unit that determines whet...