US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Remote support apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,853, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Remote support apparatus" was invented by Kosuke Akatsuka (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote support apparatus remotely supports a travelling of a vehicle. The remote support apparatus communicates wirelessly with the vehicle. The remote support apparatus wirelessly acquires an image of a view in a travelling direction of the vehicle and displays the acquired image by a displaying device of the remote support apparatus. The image is taken by an imaging device of the vehicle. The remote support apparatus displays a set steering angle lin...