ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,743, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Moving body control system and moving body control method" was invented by Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving body control system controls travel of a moving body in a predetermined. The moving body control system executes: a position estimation process that estimates a position of the moving body based on a steering angle and a speed of the moving body; a travel control process that controls travel of the moving body so as to follow a target path based on the estimated position of the moving body; a road surface condition a...