ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,552, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Unmanned driving system, control device, and unmanned driving method" was invented by Kento Iwahori (Nagoya, Japan) and Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned driving system includes a moving object movable by remote control; a remote control unit to control the moving object, the remote control unit moving the moving object from a first place in a factory to a second place; an information acquisition unit to acquire information indicating that a predetermined number or more of other moving objects of the same type as the mo...