US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 16 for "Control apparatus, vehicle, non-transitory computer readable medium, and control method" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,493, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Control apparatus, vehicle, non-transitory computer readable medium, and control method" was invented by Changyi Luo (Kokubunji, Japan), Ayana Takeshita (Kasugai, Japan), Yuhei Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Michael C. Edwards (McKinney, Texas) and Chris Risberg (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus is communicably connected to a vehicle and a user terminal, the control apparatus including a controller configured to: in response to a service request from the user terminal, determine at least a service content, a provisio...