US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 2 for "Autonomous driving system, control method for autonomous driving system, and mobile device case for autonomous driving system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,920, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous driving system, control method for autonomous driving system, and mobile device case for autonomous driving system" was invented by Naoki Nishimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving system connected communicably to a mobile device of a driver or to a mobile device case attached to the mobile device, and configured to perform autonomous driving control. the autonomous driving system comprises a display cover of the mobile device case, capable of switching a display of the mobile device between a visible state and a shielded...