ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,418, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Remote control disabling device, moving object, and remote control disabling method" was invented by Shogo Yasuyama (Okazaki, Japan), Kento Iwahori (Nagoya, Japan), Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan) and Yasuhiro Saito (Toyoake, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control disabling device includes: a determination unit that determines part of functions that are targets to be switched between an enabled state and a disabled state among a plurality of functions of a moving object to be executed by remote control; and a transmission unit that transmits ...