ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,194, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).

"Control device, control method, storage medium, manager, and vehicle" was invented by Nobuyuki Itoh (Toyota, Japan), Shunsuke Arakawa (Miyoshi, Japan) and Shogi Fukukawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device installed in a vehicle, the control device including one or more processors configured to: accept a plurality of first requests from a driver assistance system; perform arbitration of the first requests; calculate a second request that is a physical quantity that is different from the first requests, ba...