ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,049, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control system" was invented by Yasuyuki Morishita (Owariasahi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes a first control device configured to acquire a state of an in-vehicle device and configured to transmit information based on the state of the in-vehicle device, a second control device configured to receive the information from the first control device and configured to control the in-vehicle device based on the information, and a communication relay configured to relay communication of the information between the first control device...