ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,003, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device and unmanned driving method" was invented by Kento Iwahori (Nagoya, Japan) and Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires capability information of a plurality of moving objects that can be moved by unmanned driving, the capability information being related to at least one capability of avoidance capability of avoiding collision against an obstacle, and reduction capability of reducing an impact at a time of the collision against the obstacle; and a ...