US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on April 1 for "Vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,783, issued on April 1, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle control system" was invented by Yoshimasa Kurokawa (Hiroshima, Japan) and Tetsuhiro Yamashita (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes a plurality of zone ECUs and a central processing unit. Each zone ECU outputs a blinking timing signal for blinking a blinker installed in a vehicle on the basis of a blinking control signal received from the central processing unit. Furthermore, the zone ECUs are configured to be connected to each other via a local network, share blinking timing information of the blinker w...