ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,963, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control system and vehicle control method" was invented by Hisahiro Kato (Tokyo), Hiroaki Hakukawa (Tokyo), Noboru Ujigawa (Tokyo) and Tomoya Nishino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes plural electronic control devices each of which controls an operation of a vehicle and which is mounted in the vehicle, a monitoring control device monitoring an operation of each electronic control device, and an electric connector which selectively sets an electronic connection of a power source line constantly performing a supply of ...