US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 15 for "Vehicle control system, vehicle control method and central ECU" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,362, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control system, vehicle control method and central ECU" was invented by Taiki Mizutani (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes a central ECU (Electronic Control Unit), a first ECU and a second ECU. The first ECU outputs an event signal, which expresses that an event relating to a vehicle has occurred, to the central ECU. In response to acquisition of the event signal, the central ECU refers to setting information in which the event and an action which are set in advance, on a per user basis, correspond to one...