US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Vehicle platform and vehicle control interface box" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,996, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle platform and vehicle control interface box" was invented by Go Tanaka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VP includes a base vehicle and a VCIB. The VCIB includes a reception unit, an index value calculation unit, a transmission unit, and a transmission plan setting unit. The reception unit receives a control request for the base vehicle from an ADS. The index value calculation unit calculates an index value showing a degree of congestion of CAN communication. The transmission unit transmits a control instruction for the base vehicle gene...