US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 15 for "Map management system and map management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,979, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Map management system and map management method" was invented by Yusuke Hayashi (Susono, Japan), Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan) and Daichi Hotta (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map management system stores map information used by an automated driving vehicle. The automated driving vehicle detects an obstacle based on the map information, or acquires a margin distance when stopping in front of an obstacle based on the map information. When requiring a remote operator's decision about an action with respect to the obstacle, the automated dri...