US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 15 for "Remote operation system and abnormality notification method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,980, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Remote operation system and abnormality notification method" was invented by Yuki Suehiro (Ichikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote operation system includes a moving body is a target of a remote operation performed by a remote operator and a remote operator terminal on the remote operator side. The remote operation system determines whether at least one of an abnormality in a communication between the moving body and the remote operator terminal, an abnormality in the moving body, and an abnormality in the remote operator terminal occurs. Th...