US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Vehicle control device performing hardware protection control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,414, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device performing hardware protection control" was invented by Masayuki Matsui (Ichinomiya, Japan) and Keigo Matsubara (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When the driving mode is the automatic driving mode, the vehicle control device executes the first hard protection control according to the component-related parameter representing the state or the operating environment of the in-vehicle component, and when the driving mode is the manual driving mode, the vehicle control device executes the second hard protection control having a...