US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 5 for "Task management device, vehicle, and task management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,375, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Task management device, vehicle, and task management method" was invented by Hirotaka Nogami (Nisshin, Japan), Jun Tsukamoto (Seto, Japan), Tsuyoshi Okada (Nagoya, Japan), Fumiyuki Kagara (Sagamihara, Japan), Kotaro Hirose (Nisshin, Japan), Yoshiki Terashima (Okazaki, Japan) and Yohei Ando (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A task management device includes a control unit that executes, when satisfaction of a specific condition is detected during a period in which a vehicle to be operated in a mode corresponding to an application is operated in...