US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 1 for "Vehicle management system and vehicle inspection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,245, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle management system and vehicle inspection method" was invented by Ryosuke Kobayashi (Nagakute, Japan), Tomokazu Maya (Nagoya, Japan), Tsuyoshi Okada (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiromitsu Fujii (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle inspection method includes first and second transmission steps, and first and second determination steps. In the first transmission step, a vehicle transmits a first state detected by a first sensor mounted on the vehicle to a server, during autonomous driving. In the first determination step, the server determines ...