US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 29 for "In-vehicle device, control method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,403, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"In-vehicle device, control method, and recording medium" was invented by Takayuki Hatori (Nagakute, Japan) and Takuma Katoh (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle device to be mounted on a vehicle including an audio output device configured to output audio and an image output device configured to output an image supplies power to the audio output device during a first period from when a trigger of a passenger getting on the vehicle is detected until when first operation of powering on a power supply of the vehicle is performed, and su...