US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Vehicle control system and abnormality diagnosis method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,942, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control system and abnormality diagnosis method" was invented by Hiroshi Ota (Nagoya, Japan), Yasuhiro Yamasaki (Nisshin, Japan) and Kenichiro Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control system includes an abnormality diagnosis unit for determining whether a synchronization abnormality between a master ECU and a slave ECU has occurred. The abnormality diagnosis unit transmits and receives a signal between the master ECU and the slave ECU and acquires time information. The slave ECU calculates a delay time of transmissio...