US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Vehicle, vehicle platform, and autonomous driving kit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,757, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle, vehicle platform, and autonomous driving kit" was invented by Ikuma Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Miura (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a VP, the VP including a specific system, an ADK attachable to and removable from the VP, the ADK giving an instruction for autonomous driving, a main communication bus, a sub communication bus, a main VCIB configured to communicate with the ADK through the main communication bus, the main VCIB giving a control instruction to the specific system in accordance with an inst...