ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,733, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous driving vehicle" was invented by Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan) and Masamichi Ohsugi (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle of the present disclosure includes a sensor for recognizing an object around the vehicle, at least one processor, and at least one memory storing a plurality of instructions executable by the at least one processor. The plurality of instructions causes the at least one processor to store data acquired by the sensor during the autonomous driving, and to suppress a storage distance of the da...