US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,421, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Masashi Mori (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control device includes a body control unit that, when a driving operation by an occupant is required during automatic driving of the vehicle, performs control to notify the terminal device possessed by the occupant to prompt the driving operation."

The patent was filed on Dec. 4, 2023, under Application No. 18/528,196.

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