US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 18 for "Vehicle, method of controlling vehicle, and vehicle control interface box" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,185, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle, method of controlling vehicle, and vehicle control interface box" was invented by Ikuma Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan) and Eisuke Ando (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ADS performs processing including setting an acceleration command to V1 when an autonomous state is set to an autonomous mode, when the acceleration command has a value indicating deceleration, when a vehicle velocity is zero, and when a standstill command is set to "Applied" and setting an immobilization command to "Applied" when a traveling direction of a vehicle indicates...