ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,498, issued on June 9, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, moving apparatus, and method, and program" was invented by Eiji Oba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Evacuation control such as deceleration or stop of a vehicle is executed in response to an application from a driver of the vehicle for refusal of switching to manual driving. It is a moving apparatus that is switchable between automatic driving and manual driving and includes a driver information acquisition unit that acquires driver information of a driver of the moving apparatus, an environmental infor...