ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,533, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Setting execution mode for electronic control units based on remaining battery level after stopping vehicle" was invented by Hiroki Kawasaki (Toyota, Japan), Noriaki Ito (Toyota, Japan), Hiroto Nakagawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Satoru Ikeda (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure reduces power consumption of a vehicle. An information processing apparatus of this disclosure acquires information on a remaining battery level of a vehicle. The information processing apparatus determines, for each of multiple types o...