ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,972, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Remote support method and remote support system" was invented by Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan) and Masamichi Ohsugi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing load of a server configured to manage a remote support or data traffic per unit time in sending/receiving between a target mobile vehicle of the remote support and the server is calculated. Positional information of a current location and a destination of the target mobile vehicle and map information containing the current location and the destination are obtained. When the proce...