ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,482, issued on June 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan), J-QUAD DYNAMICS INC. (Tokyo) and ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).

"Motion manager for vehicle" was invented by Kazuki Miyake (Okazaki, Japan) and Tatsuya Hiromura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion manager for a vehicle, includes one or more processors configured to: receive motion requests from a plurality of applications, one or more of the applications being travel applications for controlling at least one of an acceleration of the vehicle or a steering angle of the vehicle, and another one or more of the applications being human-machine interfa...