ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,638, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Masataka Ishizuka (Okazaki, Japan), Takashi Yuma (Toyokawa, Japan), Yusuke Yamauchi (Aichi-ken, Japan), Masashi Sasaki (Seto, Japan) and Ryosuke Mayumi (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When the switching to the ignition-off state (IG-off state Igoff) is performed, the parking switching position (P switching position Ppos) at a time of switching to the IG-off state Igoff is stored in each of a plurality of non-volatile memories as previous positions Mpp1, Mpp2, and in a case where the previous positions M...