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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,393, 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 Go Tanaka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle platform that controls the vehicle and an autonomous driving kit that transmits commands for autonomous driving to the vehicle platform. The vehicle platform includes an accelerator pedal, a first emergency stop system that stops the vehicle in the event of an abnormality in the autonomous driving kit, and a second emergency stop system that stops the vehicle in the event of an emerge...