ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,618, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control system, information processing device, and master electronic control unit" 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: "A vehicle control system includes a master controller and multiple slave controllers configured to communicate with the master controller via an in-vehicle network. The vehicle control system is configured to acquire accuracy-related information, which is information related to accuracy of time synchronization between the ma...