ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,369, issued on July 14, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Door opening and closing controller" was invented by Kenji Hori (Fujisawa, Japan) and Yuji Houzumi (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller includes: a time difference acquisition part that acquires a time difference from the current time to a scheduled departure time at which a shared vehicle, which performs automatic traveling on the basis of a predetermined operation plan, departs from a shared vehicle stop, when the shared vehicle is stopped at the shared vehicle stop; a region adjusting part that adjusts a detection region for detecting peopl...