ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,526, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle" was invented by Shoji Sakamoto (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Kazumi Tsuchiya (Gotemba, Japan), Makoto Matsushita (Ichinomiya, Japan), Takeshi Takemoto (Nagoya, Japan), Shunsuke Sagara (Nisshin, Japan) and Hideaki Shiraishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle includes a weather information acquisition unit that acquires weather information from a global precipitation satellite, and an autonomous driving control unit that causes the vehicle to travel at a point equal to or larger than a predetermined precipitation amount acquired from the weat...