US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 16 for "Remote control support of autonomous vehicle predictive driving plan priorities" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,713, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Remote control support of autonomous vehicle predictive driving plan priorities" was invented by Yu Nagata (Chofu, Japan) and Ibuki Shimada (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control support apparatus according to the present disclosure is a remote control support apparatus for autonomous vehicles and includes a controller configured to acquire a plurality of driving plans, each driving plan being for a different autonomous vehicle, acquire history information on past remote support requests from autonomous vehicles, predict an occurren...