US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 5 for "Remote assistance management for reducing the load of operators by remote assistance prediction and categorization" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,884, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Remote assistance management for reducing the load of operators by remote assistance prediction and categorization" was invented by Maiko Hirano (Nagoya, Japan), Koji Taguchi (Sagamihara, Japan), Kentaro Ichikawa (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Yoshitaka Adachi (Koto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote assistance management system is in communication with autonomous traveling vehicles for letting an operator provide remote assistance in response to an assistance request from a vehicle. The system predicts an occurrence of an assistance request in future ...