ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,947, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicle control system and vehicle control method" was invented by Jun Anzai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshihisa Nakano (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated ECU is a vehicle control system provided in a vehicle, and includes: an application executor that executes an application program; an environment state determiner that determines whether the application executor is anomalous; a first resource provider that provides a resource to be used for controlling the vehicle; and a first access controller that, upon acceptance...