US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Sept. 15 for "Vehicle development support system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,441, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle development support system" was invented by Yutaka Hiwatashi (Tokyo), Yuji Tanizaki (Tokyo), Atsushi Udagawa (Tokyo), Tsunehiro Watanabe (Tokyo) and Satoshi Naruse (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle development support system includes a frame body equipped with electronic control units installed in a vehicle, a real-time simulator that calculates physical state amounts for operating in-vehicle devices controlled by the electronic control units using control signals for the electronic control units and simulate operations of the in-vehicle devices an...