ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,318, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control system and vehicle control method" was invented by Ryuta Atsumi (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes a portable terminal and a vehicle on-board device that carries out wireless communication with the portable terminal. The vehicle on-board device includes a first voice recognition unit that recognizes a voice and a control unit that executes control of a vehicle according to the voice recognized at the first voice recognition unit. The portable terminal includes a second voice recognition unit that ...