US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 20 for "Control device, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,490, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Kento Mochizuki (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a control unit configured to, when an emergency call is sent or received, check whether there is a disconnection or ground fault of a line that transmits a mute signal to the navigation device, and when the disconnection or ground fault of the line is detected, causes an output device to output predetermined data."

The patent was filed on Oct. 3, 2023, under Application No. 18/480,320.

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