US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 19 for "Vehicle running control system based on track environment information" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,066, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle running control system based on track environment information" was invented by Shogo Yasuyama (Okazaki, Japan), Takeshi Kanou (Seto, Japan), Kento Iwahori (Nagoya, Japan) and Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises: a remote controller that causes a vehicle to run by remote control, the vehicle being capable of running along a track in a factory during a course of manufacture, the vehicle including a vehicle communication unit and a driving controller, the vehicle communication unit having a communication funct...