US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 30 for "Vehicle, control method for vehicle, and vehicle control interface box" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,054, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle, control method for vehicle, and vehicle control interface box" was invented by Go Tanaka (Toyota, Japan), Ikuma Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan) and Haruki Oguri (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle equipped with an autonomous driving system includes a vehicle platform configured to execute vehicle control in accordance with commands from the autonomous driving system. The vehicle platform includes a base vehicle including an electric parking brake, and a vehicle control interface box configured to perform interfacing between the autonomo...