ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,531, issued on July 15, was assigned to MICO LATTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Self-driving vehicle determining route completable within travel time calculated based on remaining amount of vehicle power and non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store program for the vehicle" was invented by Masahiro Suzuki (Tokyo), Mayumi Suzuki (Tokyo) and Yoichiro Sako (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-driving vehicle includes a motor, a driving source configured to drive the motor, a vehicle-traveling-time setter setting a vehicle traveling time determined by a passenger, thereby generating a passenger-set, vehicle traveling time, an...