ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,430, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Control system, in-vehicle device, and coordination device" was invented by Yuma Kato (Tokyo), Tasuku Ishigooka (Tokyo), Yoshitaka Atarashi (Tokyo) and Hideki Endo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To achieve both guarantee of safety related to vehicle control and improvement of availability in an in-vehicle device that cannot independently perform automatic driving and needs assistance of vehicle control. To achieve the above object, a control system includes an in-vehicle device and a coordination device that are synchronized in time point. The contr...