ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,907, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control system" was invented by Masamichi Ohsugi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system comprises one or more processors configured to perform vehicle control of a vehicle including a plurality of control functions and one or more storage devices. The control system stores log data related to the vehicle control in the one or more storage devices while performing the vehicle control. When a free capacity of the one or more storage devices is less than a threshold value, the control system restr...