ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,517, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).
"Vehicle travel route planning system" was invented by Koji Oya (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle travel path planning system, which plans an optimal combination of travel paths for all of multiple vehicles included in a vehicle group, includes: a single path planning unit planning, as a single path, one travel path for each of the multiple vehicles; a candidate path generation unit generating multiple candidate paths similar to the single path planned for...