ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,755, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System, method, and storage medium for selectively providing remote monitoring and remote driving to a mobile object" was invented by Naofumi Kobayashi (Gotemba, Japan), Hirofumi Momose (Numazu, Japan), Rio Suda (Toyota, Japan) and Kosuke Akatsuka (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Remote monitoring and remote driving are selectively provided for a plurality of vehicles including a first vehicle. In remote monitoring for a plurality of vehicles, a server distributes monitoring information received from each of a plurality of vehicles to a plural...