ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,575, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Resource management device, method, and computer program for resource management and matching output timings of sequential processes across hardware" was invented by Shinichi Shiraishi (Saitama, Japan), Yu Sasaki (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Kazunao Yokoo (Misato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource management device includes a processor configured to determine allocation of a resource of first hardware to sequential processes so that the sum of an absolute value of a difference between an output timing of at least one predetermined-number process amon...