US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 9 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,858, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Ikuma Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan) and Haruki Oguri (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle platform configured to receive an instruction from an autonomous driving kit. The vehicle platform includes a steering wheel to be operated by a driver of the vehicle, a steering motor configured to generate torque for varying an angle of a front wheel of the vehicle, and a first control device configured to control the steering motor. The vehicle platform is configured to receive a front wheel steering angle instr...