US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 2 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,886, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Sho Hashimoto (Susono, Japan), Satoshi Nakamura (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Tomoki Somiya (Okazaki, Japan), Kazumasa Harada (Nagakute, Japan), Hiroki Yabushita (Toyota, Japan), Sei Miyazaki (Susono, Japan), Yuki Nishikawa (Numazu, Japan) and Noriaki Hasegawa (Izunokuni, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an interface unit and a preventive safety device. The preventive safety device includes a performance evaluation unit that performs evaluation of driving performance of the autonomous driving kit, and a suppression uni...