US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, ADVICS on April 22 for "Control apparatus, manager, electronic control unit, system, control method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,788, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).

"Control apparatus, manager, electronic control unit, system, control method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program, and vehicle" was invented by Kazuki Miyake (Okazaki, Japan), Akitsugu Sakai (Toyota, Japan), Shunsuke Arakawa (Miyoshi, Japan), Yuma Mori (Tokyo) and Jun Aoki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manager to be mounted on a vehicle includes a reception unit that receives a plurality of kinematic plans from a plurality of ADAS applications, an arbitration unit that performs arbitra...