US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 25 for "Vehicle and autonomous driving kit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,721, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle and autonomous driving kit" was invented by Yukinari Kato (Okazaki, Japan), Shintaro Matsutani (Kariya, Japan) and Keiichi Uno (Chita-gun Aichi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a computer of an ADK determines that a condition for performing self-diagnosis processing is met, or when performance of self-diagnosis processing is notified from a VP even if the condition for performing self-diagnosis processing is not met, the computer performs processing including: a step of performing self-diagnosis processing; a step of notifying the perf...