US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 17 for "Information processing system, ECU, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,755, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing system, ECU, and information processing method" was invented by Masaya Hizaki (Nagareyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an information processing system including: a plurality of ECUs mounted on a vehicle equipped with a battery that is chargeable with an external power supply; and a communication terminal mounted on the vehicle, when the communication terminal is in a sleep state, a predetermined ECU among the plurality of ECUs activates the communication terminal, triggered by detection of start of charging of the battery...