ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,648, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Remote control device" was invented by Keigo Ikeda (Nisshin, Japan), Yasuhiro Saito (Toyoake, Japan), Kazuo Yaegashi (Tokyo) and Hiroki Izu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control device includes, at least one processer configured to perform processes including, acquiring three-dimensional point cloud data measured using a distance measuring device, estimating at least one of a position and an orientation of a moving object in the three-dimensional point cloud data by matching a template point cloud indicating the moving object with the three...