US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 17 for "Systems and methods for remote control of vehicles" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,721, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for remote control of vehicles" was invented by Yosuke Tsuruta (Frisco, Texas) and Imad Zahid (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system includes a driver station having a control interface, an electronic display, and a driver data communication module, and a vehicle data communication module. The vehicle data communication module receives vehicle sensor data generated by a plurality of vehicle sensors of a vehicle, and environment sensor data generat...