US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,167, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Haruki Oguri (Toyota, Japan), Kenichi Yamada (Nisshin, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Miura (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle comprises a vehicle platform for controlling the vehicle and a ADK for transmitting commands for autonomous driving to the vehicle platform. A base vehicle of a vehicle platform includes a radiator device and a body ECU (first control device). The radiator device includes a radiator fan and is configured to cool ADK. The body ECU is configured to control the radiator fan according to a command ...