US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 17 for "Vehicle platform, vehicle control interface box, and autonomous driving system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,414, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle platform, vehicle control interface box, and autonomous driving system" was invented by Ikuma Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Miura (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VP is configured such that an ADS is mountable thereon. The VP includes a base vehicle and a VCIB. The VCIB includes a VCIB that interfaces between the base vehicle and the ADS through a communication bus and a VCIB that interfaces between the base vehicle and the ADS through a communication bus. Each of the VCIB and the VCIB outputs a signal and a signal. The signa...