ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,289, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous driving system" was invented by Masamichi Ohsugi (Sunto-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving system includes an external sensor, an internal sensor, a machine learning model configured to receive a detection result of the external sensor and the internal sensor as input values and output an instruction value of autonomous driving, an operation unit configured to perform the autonomous driving based on the instruction value, a user interface, and a control unit, wherein the control unit includes, determining at least one...