US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 3 for "Vehicle system with remote operation mode transition control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,208, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle system with remote operation mode transition control" was invented by Haruki Oguri (Toyota, Japan) and Kenichi Yamada (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an autonomous driving system and a vehicle platform that controls the vehicle according to commands from the automated driving system. The autonomous driving system is configured to send to the vehicle platform commands for autonomous driving, which is autonomous driving of the vehicle alone, and commands for remote driving, which is automatic driving based on signals fr...