ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,118, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device for vehicle and control method for vehicle" was invented by Jumpei Haratake (Toyota, Japan) and Hirotaka Omisha (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a door, an electric unlocking mechanism that is supplied with electric power from a battery installed in the vehicle and that also electrically unlocks the door, and a physical unlocking mechanism for manually unlocking the door. A control device of the vehicle includes an annunciation circuit that performs annunciation of predetermined information to a user of the vehi...