US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 20 for "Control apparatus, control system, control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,580, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control apparatus, control system, control method, and program" was invented by Tadashi Odashima (Seto Aichi-ken, Japan), Yoshiumi Kawamura (Suntou-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Kazuki Shibata (Nagakute Aichi-ken, Japan) and Tomohiko Jimbo (Nagakute Aichi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request response processing unit calculates, based on observation information about the agent, at least one other agent near the agent, and the task, a request parameter as to whether or not to request help, and a response parameter as to whether or not to respond to...