ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,675, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Moving object, server, and method of manufacturing moving object" was invented by Keigo Ikeda (Nisshin, Japan), Shogo Yasuyama (Okazaki, Japan), Noritsugu Iwazaki (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Takeshi Kanou (Seto, Japan), Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan) and Go Inoue (Gotemba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving object manufactured in a factory comprises: a driving controller that implements driving control over the moving object by unmanned driving during a course of manufacture of the moving object in the factory; a process completion detector that dete...