US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on July 8 for "Vehicle control system and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,213, issued on July 8, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control system and vehicle control method" was invented by Ryosuke Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system 100 according to the present disclosure comprises a first battery 11 that supplies power to a power source that drives the vehicle 1; an automatic driving processing unit 13 that provides the automatic driving function; and a second battery 12. The second battery 12 supplies power to the automatic driving processing unit 13 in the ignition-off state. Further, the second battery 12 supplies power to the first battery 11 to activa...