ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,968, issued on April 7, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Vehicle driving switching device, vehicle driving system, and vehicle driving switching method" was invented by Keisuke Shinoda (Nisshin-city, Japan), Syohei Fujii (Nisshin-city, Japan), Jingyu Xiang (Nisshin-city, Japan) and Atsushi Baba (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle driving switching device, driving rule determination information under automatic driving is acquired which indicates a determination result of comparison between (i) a driving rule and (ii) an automatic driving characteristic being a characteristic of a host vehi...