US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 20 for "System, method, and device for controlling a throttle response of a vehicle" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,343, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Japan).

"System, method, and device for controlling a throttle response of a vehicle" was invented by Monica M. Ross (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Garrett P. Munson (Milford, Mich.), Adam C. McJunkin (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shigeki Amano (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shogo Tanaka (Toki, Japan), Takahiro Anami (Toyota, Japan) and Yoshihisa Nakamura (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for a throttle response control system that controls the rate at which a throttle opens. The throt...