US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on April 15 for "Vehicle control system, vehicle, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,421, issued on April 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control system, vehicle, and control method" was invented by Hisahiro Kato (Tokyo), Yusuke Yoshimura (Tokyo) and Tomoya Tokunaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes a plurality of slave ECUs, and a core ECU including a gateway function for relaying data communication among the plurality of slave ECUs and between the plurality of slave ECUs and an external apparatus. The vehicle control system accepts operation requests from a plurality of systems that makes a request for an operation to an operating unit equipped in a ve...