US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 12 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,758, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Kiyoto Suzuki (Tokoname, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle ECU is a vehicle control device including a CPU and a CAN controller, wherein CPU transmits an instruction to execute a failure diagnosis to CAN controller, and CAN controller includes a diagnosis buffer storing data relating to a failure diagnosis request for the diagnosis target and data relating to a response from the diagnosis target, and a sequencer. The sequencer is configured to read data from the diagnosis buffers in response to reception ...