US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 20 for "Electronic control unit, vehicle control system, and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,429, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electronic control unit, vehicle control system, and vehicle control method" was invented by Masaki Miyake (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control unit (ECU), a vehicle control system, and a vehicle control method are provided. The disabling process disables execution of the software stored in storage circuitry when execution circuitry is restarted during operation of the vehicle control system. In a function restricting process, when another ECU is restarted during the operation of the vehicle control system, the software stored...