US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Dec. 16 for "Vehicle external communication control system for terminal in vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,989, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle external communication control system for terminal in vehicle" was invented by Hideaki Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle external communication control system for a terminal(s) in a vehicle controls external communication of the terminal(s) through the vehicle and includes a vehicle internal communicator, a vehicle external communicator, a vehicle external communication controller, a setter, and a server. The vehicle external communication controller is activated in a setting state in which the terminal(s) is unable to communicate with an extern...