US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,416, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device" was invented by Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan) and Jyunya Katou (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for remotely controlling a vehicle in a factory where a plurality of processes are performed for manufacturing a vehicle includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not a component is correctly assembled to the vehicle; and a computing unit that, when the component is correctly assembled to the vehicle, acquires at least one of a position and an orientation of the vehicle using a first method based on ...