ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,004, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Aichi-pref., Japan).
"Monitoring center, monitoring system and method" was invented by Satoshi Yoshinaga (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring center configured to communicate with an autonomous vehicle and monitor the autonomous vehicle is provided. The monitoring center includes a threshold storage unit that stores a threshold of a vehicle stop duration for determining whether it is necessary to provide operator's assistance, a communication unit that receives vehicle state data from the autonomous vehicle, an analysis unit that obtains a vehicle stop duratio...