US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 3 for "Automatic driving system for managing priority and controlling transport of a plurality of vehicles from production to shipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,207, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Automatic driving system for managing priority and controlling transport of a plurality of vehicles from production to shipment" was invented by Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan) and Yasuhiro Saito (Toyoake, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic driving system allows a vehicle with a higher shipment priority to be transported preferentially, by controlling transport of each of several vehicles in any of steps from production to shipment includes: a priority acquisition unit configured to acquire a shipment priority set for each vehicle; and a contro...