ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,840, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicular arbitration system" was invented by Kazumutsu Azuma (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular arbitration system includes: a main manager configured to receive one or more requests from a plurality of first application execution units and to determine a request for operating a predetermined on-vehicle device based on the received one or more requests and a predetermined rule; and a plurality of sub-managers respectively configured to arbitrate the request determined by the main manager and a request input from at least one second ap...