ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,962, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Autonomous driving system" was invented by Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan) and Masamichi Ohsugi (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving route along which autonomous driving control of a vehicle is executed is set. In the setting of the autonomous driving route, at least two candidates of a route from a current location to a destination of the vehicle are set. Next, for each of the at least two candidates, a fluctuation amount of log data that fluctuates in a memory device during a travel of the vehicle along the c...