ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,368, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Zonal architecture for vehicle" was invented by Imad Zahid (Carrollton, Texas) and Joshua C. Batie (Frisco, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of dividing a vehicle into a plurality of zones based on operations performed by vehicle, assigning a different subset of electronic control units (ECUs) from among a plurality of ECUs of the vehicle to each zone based on functions performed by the plurality of ECUs with respect to the plurality of zones, determining a...