US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,777, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Haruki Oguri (Toyota, Japan), Ikuma Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan), Hirohito Ide (Nagoya, Japan) and Naohiro Tohyama (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle comprises a vehicle platform (VP) and an autonomous driving kit (ADK). VP comprises a first control device, and ADK comprises a second control device. The vehicle control interface box (VCIB) included in VP includes a first computer configured to communicate with both the first control device and the second control device. The first computer detects an operation...