US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 20 for "Autonomous vehicle having a device which evaluates driving performance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,514, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous vehicle having a device which evaluates driving performance" was invented by Sho Hashimoto (Susono, Japan), Satoshi Nakamura (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Tomoki Somiya (Okazaki, Japan), Kazumasa Harada (Nagakute, Japan), Hiroki Yabushita (Toyota, Japan), Sei Miyazaki (Susono, Japan), Yuki Nishikawa (Numazu, Japan) and Noriaki Hasegawa (Izunokuni, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an interface unit that is configured to be able to communicate with an autonomous driving kit configured to be attachable to and detachable from the vehi...