US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 27 for "Control device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,005, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for vehicle" was invented by Shotaro Arai (Okazaki, Japan) and Shunsuke Oyama (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The larger the amount of change in the accelerator operation amount from the point in time when the accelerator returning operation is performed to the current point in time, the larger the reduction rate of the driving torque at the time of decreasing toward the required value of the driving torque is set. When the amount of change in the accelerator operation amount is relatively great, the reduction rate of the driv...