ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,734, issued on June 10, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicle control system" was invented by Jun Fujiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoya Koike (Saitama, Japan), Jun Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinya Ota (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes: a vehicle including an operation device; a first communication device; and a second communication device. In a case in which the first communication device is positioned in a first area containing a position of the vehicle, the vehicle operates in an operation waiting state in which the operation device is allowed...