ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,866, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vehicle conveyance management system and vehicle conveyance management method and storage medium" was invented by Masayuki Itoh (Nagoya, Japan), Iwao Maeda (Nagoya, Japan), Tatsuya Sugano (Susono, Japan), Norinao Watanabe (Susono, Japan), Yutaka Nakamura (Susono, Japan), Yoshikazu Jikuhara (Susono, Japan) and Yuki Nishikawa (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an automated parking lot in which manual driving vehicles and automated driving vehicles can park, when entering the automated parking lot, the manual driving vehicle is conveyed by a veh...