US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Control device, mobile object, mobile object control system, control method, and trailer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,322, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device, mobile object, mobile object control system, control method, and trailer" was invented by Yasuyoshi Hatano (Nisshin, Japan), Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan), Jyunya Katou (Toyota, Japan) and Shogo Yasuyama (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is configured to control movement of a mobile object that can travel by driverless driving and that is transported in a process of manufacturing the mobile object. The control device includes a control command section configured to generate and output a control command to caus...