ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,547, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control system for electric vehicle" was invented by Yoshito Sekiguchi (Kariya, Japan), Atsushi Tabata (Okazaki, Japan) and Koichi Okuda (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for an electric vehicle for allowing a driver to virtually enjoy a manual shifting operation as performed in the conventional vehicles having transmissions without reducing stability and operability of the electric vehicle. A controller is configured to set a required drive torque in accordance with a selected operating range, and to selectively allow an exec...