ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,167, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control system, vehicle control method. and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Daichi Hotta (Tokyo), Yusuke Hayashi (Susono, Japan) and Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system controls a vehicle that potentially requests remote support in a predetermined area. The vehicle control system acquires surrounding situation information including at least one of object information regarding an object around the vehicle and signal indication information indicating signal indicati...