ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,369, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System, control device, and control method for remote control of the vehicle" was invented by Toshiki Shinohara (Toyota, Japan), Masataka Okuda (Toyota, Japan), Masatoshi Kakutani (Miyoshi, Japan), Kaoru Yoshida (Nisshin, Japan) and Kanade Kuriyama (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a vehicle and a control device. The vehicle includes a reception unit for receiving an instruction related to remote control from the control device, a vehicle control unit for executing any one of first vehicle control and second vehicle control, th...