US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,584, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control system" was invented by Tetsuhiro Chiba (Tokyo), Natsuki Ehara (Tokyo) and Ryo Sakai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes: in-vehicle ECUs provided according to positions within a vehicle or functions of the vehicle; and an integrated ECU configured to control the in-vehicle ECUs, the in-vehicle ECUs include an ECU capable of communicating with an auxiliary battery sensor configured to detect a state of an auxiliary battery, the auxiliary battery sensor is configured to transmit the state of the auxiliary battery ...