ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,473, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Apparatus and method for managing travel of vehicle having autonomous travel function, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan), Yusuke Hayashi (Susono, Japan) and Daichi Hotta (Tokyo-to, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides to an apparatus for managing travel of a vehicle having an autonomous travel function. The apparatus executes the following steps. The apparatus sequentially acquires sensor information from a recognition sensor mounted on the vehicle. The apparat...