ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,373, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control system" was invented by Hiroki Okada (Toyota, Japan), Ryuta Atsumi (Toyota, Japan), Satoshi Fujisaki (Nagoya, Japan), Daisuke Hiroki (Toda, Japan) and Shinpei Asai (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes a terminal device and a vehicle. The terminal device includes a first verification unit that verifies whether the terminal devices matches the vehicle through wireless communication when the terminal device enters an area in which wireless communication between the terminal device and the vehicle is a...