US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 4 for "Autonomous driving vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,993, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous driving vehicle" was invented by Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Masamichi Ohsugi (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle of the present disclosure stores autonomous driving data generated during execution of autonomous driving and switch a storage mode according to an available capacity of a storage area for storing the autonomous driving data. The storage mode includes an all-storage mode and a partial-storage mode. The all-storage mode is a mode that is selected when the available capacity of th...