US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 9 for "Remote assistance apparatus, method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,688, issued on June 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Remote assistance apparatus, method, and program" was invented by Takuya Mori (Kariya-city, Japan), Kengo Sasaki (Kariya-city, Japan), Toru Nagura (Kariya-city, Japan) and Satoshi Yoshinaga (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote assistance apparatus records, in an assistance content recording unit, assistance contents for remote assistance for an autonomous driving vehicle in response to the autonomous driving vehicle stopping as a result of an occurrence of a traveling abnormality, and then resumes autonomous traveling as a result of remote...