ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,704, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Hiroshi Ueno (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a controller configured to control an actuator and generate state information representing a state of the actuator, a request arbitration unit configured to arbitrate requests from a plurality of application execution units, and a request generation unit configured to generate a drive request signal to the controller. The controller includes a detection unit configured to detect whether or not the req...