ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,422, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Autonomous driving system" was invented by Masamichi Ohsugi (Sunto-gun Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving system for causing a storage unit of a vehicle to store output data related to autonomous driving control calculated based on a detection result of an in-vehicle sensor of the vehicle, the autonomous driving system including: a log acquisition unit configured to acquire a driving scene in which the output data is calculated and the output data as log data in association with each other; an influence degree acq...