ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,356, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Transport management device, transport management method, and transport system" was invented by Takafumi Fujita (Tokyo), Masaki Uchida (Tokyo), Ryo Kuranishi (Tokyo) and Takatoshi Hida (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By causing a vehicle to travel while defining the interval between a point A and a point B as a first driver-operated travel zone, the interval between the point B and a point C as an autonomous driving travel zone, and the interval between the point C and a point D as a second driver-operated travel zone, this transport management device manages t...