ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,917, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle system" was invented by Nobuhiro Sugiyama (Shizuoka, Japan) and You Yanagida (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety standard of a predetermined level is set for a function to be implemented in each of devices. A central ECU includes ASIL ECUs to, in which each of the ASIL ECUS to is allocated for each level of the safety standard and is able to execute, on the device, confirmation processing according to the allocated level. A network branch unit distributes and transmits each of input signals from the devices, the input signals being respectivel...