US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 7 for "Action schedule notification device for vehicle and action schedule notification method for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,347, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Action schedule notification device for vehicle and action schedule notification method for vehicle" was invented by Tomohiko Kaneko (Yokohama, Japan), Junichi Morimura (Sunto-gun, Japan), Shun Maruyama (Numazu, Japan), Ryoma Hiraike (Toyota, Japan) and Satoshi Omi (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The processor 162 of ECU 160 is configured to determine an action schedule of the vehicle capable of autonomous driving and notify two or more consecutive action schedules to surrounding other vehicles, and is configured to perform at least one of n...