US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 29 for "In-vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,693, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"In-vehicle control device" was invented by Naofumi Ota (Toyota, Japan), Jiro Ito (Toyota, Japan), Ryota Misumi (Toyota, Japan), Kazuichi Fujisaka (Hiroshima, Japan) and Sadahisa Yamada (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle control device includes a processor configured to: control a device of a first type, which has a function of switching an operation mode between a normal mode and a mode in which power consumption is limited compared to the normal mode in accordance with an instruction via communication and a device of a second ty...