ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,354, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Yuki Kuwayama (Yokohama, Japan), Takeshi Fujiki (Tokyo), Rie Murai (Chiba, Japan), Kohei Miwa (Sunto-gun, Japan), Akira Miyamoto (Nissin, Japan), Tsuyoshi Okada (Nagoya, Japan) and Yu Ito (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor included in an information processing apparatus is configured to generate a follow-up command to perform follow-up travel to follow an autonomous vehicle with an autonomous driving function or an unmann...