US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Remote support system and remote support method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,236, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Remote support system and remote support method" was invented by Yusuke Hayashi (Susono, Japan), Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan) and Daichi Hotta (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote support system requests a remote operator to perform remote support for passing through a predetermined area, when a vehicle is determined to be in a remote support request situation that a continuation of autonomous driving is difficult due to the vehicle during autonomous driving and one or more avoidance target vehicles approaching each other in the pred...