ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,723, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle" was invented by Eisuke Ando (Nagoya, Japan) and Takehito Fujii (Anjyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ADK determines whether or not a subject device has stopped operation due to control interference caused by a user operation and an ADK operation that were simultaneously performed. When the ADK determines that the subject device has stopped operation due to control interference caused by the user operation and the ADK operation that were simultaneously performed, the ADK transmits to a VP (VCIB), a control request (an operation command) ...