ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,634, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariay-city, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electronic control device, vehicle information provision method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" was invented by Takanari Makita (Kariya-city, Japan), Daishi Miyata (Kariya-city, Japan), Takuya Hasegawa (Kariya-city, Japan), Ryo Mizuno (Toyota, Japan), Ryota Arai (Nagoya, Japan) and Takashi Hosoi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control device includes: a data extraction unit that extracts data from a data frame conforming to a predetermined communication protocol; a vehicl...