ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,237, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Atsuko Yamada (Toyota, Japan) and Toru Miyamoto (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus executes an automatic driving control for driving a vehicle to a target space based on an instruction transmitted by a remote operation apparatus that a user outside the vehicle operates. The vehicle control apparatus stops the vehicle and makes the remote operation apparatus perform a first notification, when a predetermined stop condition is satisfied while the automatic driving control is be...