US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 19 for "Vehicle, method of controlling vehicle, and vehicle control interface box" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,168, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle, method of controlling vehicle, and vehicle control interface box" was invented by Eisuke Ando (Nagoya, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Miura (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VCIB performs processing including obtaining various requests from systems (S100), determining whether or not there is a request on the occurrence of an abnormal condition (S102), and transmitting the obtained request to an ADS and carrying out representation control (S104) when it is determined that there is a request on the occurrence of the abnormal condition (YES in S102...