ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,955, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Travel route management system" was invented by Masamichi Ohsugi (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a travel route management system that generates a travel route for autonomous driving control of a vehicle. The travel route management system comprises one or more storage devices configured to store a travel record that includes data of past travel of the vehicle by the autonomous driving control, and processing circuitry. The vehicle comprises a target storage device that store...