US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 4 for "Server and operation system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,997, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Server and operation system" was invented by Kenji Kondo (Setagaya-ku Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server that manages a plurality of movable bodies generates an operation plan of each of the plurality of movable bodies and instructs each of the plurality of movable bodies to operate in accordance with the generated operation plan. The server is configured to perform determining, before it instructs each of the plurality of movable bodies to operate, whether or not contention will occur, the contention referring to a plurality of movable b...