ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,732, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device, moving object, and control method" was invented by Go Inoue (Gotemba, Japan), Noritsugu Iwazaki (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Yoshinori Watanabe (Isehara, Japan), Takeshi Kanou (Seto, Japan), Yuki Okamoto (Kanagawa-ken, Japan) and Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result by a detector, wherein the detector is mounted on a moving object movable by unmanned driving; a determination unit configured to determine a landmark to be detected by th...