US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 28 for "Vehicle and vehicle control interface" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,892, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle and vehicle control interface" was invented by Ikuma Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan) and Yuta Ohashi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is a vehicle on which an ADK is mountable. The vehicle includes: a VP that controls the vehicle in accordance with an instruction from the ADK; and a VCIB that serves as an interface between the ADK and the VP. The VP outputs a brake pedal position signal in accordance with an amount of depression of a brake pedal by a driver, and outputs a brake pedal intervention signal, to the ADK through the VCIB. T...