ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,782, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Moving object management device, moving object management system, and remote control function disablement method" was invented by Shogo Yasuyama (Okazaki, Japan), Keigo Ikeda (Nisshin, Japan), Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan) and Yasuhiro Saito (Toyoake, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving object management device manages a plurality of moving objects, each moving object having a remote control function to move by remote control. The moving object management device includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire vulnerability informa...