ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,454, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Mobility service system" was invented by Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan), Ryo Shirono (Sunto-gun, Japan), Takefumi Goto (Gotemba, Japan), Shinya Ohkawa (Matsuyama, Japan), Fumihiro Ishikawa (Susono, Japan) and Hiromitsu Kobayashi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobility service system provides a mobility service using a vehicle. The mobility service system includes one or more processors configured to assign a remote operator to a target vehicle in response to a request for remote support from the target vehicle. The remote support includes ...