ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,029, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus and method for managing resource" was invented by Naoya Asao (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Arata Miyamoto (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for managing a resource includes a buffer memory; and a processor configured to store, when target data for each of processes is acquired, the acquired target data in the buffer memory, the processes occurring asynchronously and periodically and being assigned degrees of priority, and assign a shared resource to some of the processes for which the target data is stored in the buffer memory i...