US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Vehicle and method of controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,270, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle and method of controlling vehicle" was invented by Ikuma Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan), Satoshi Katoh (Toyota, Japan) and Ryo Irie (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle (10) includes a VP (120) that carries out vehicle control in accordance with a command from an autonomous driving system (202) and a vehicle control interface (110) that interfaces between the autonomous driving system (202) and the VP (120). A tire turning angle command that requests for a wheel steer angle is transmitted from the autonomous driving system (202) to the ...