ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,073, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Operation management apparatus" was invented by Yu Nagata (Chofu, Japan) and Tomoyuki Kozuka (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation management apparatus is configured to operate a vehicle by automated driving. The operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire precipitation data indicating the amount of precipitation forecasted to fall during a time period that lasts until operation of the vehicle is completed, perform, using the acquired precipitation data as an input, a determination process to determine an ...