US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 2 for "Autonomous traveling system, autonomous traveling method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,928, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous traveling system, autonomous traveling method, and storage medium" was invented by Takanori Imazu (Susono, Japan), Yoshiki Fukada (Susono, Japan), Ryuji Okamura (Gotemba, Japan), Takashi Hayashi (Mishima, Japan), Kohki Baba (Susono, Japan), Satoshi Omi (Ebina, Japan), Akihiro Kusumoto (Susono, Japan) and Yuta Kataoka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When an autonomous vehicle is caused to depart from a current position to a pickup location, a waiting location for temporarily parking the autonomous vehicle is set between the current position an...