ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,928, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle dispatch system, traveling route generation method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" was invented by Daichi Hotta (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yusuke Hayashi (Susono, Japan) and Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle dispatch system for dispatching an autonomous vehicle in accordance with a vehicle dispatch request is proposed. The vehicle dispatch system is configured to execute generating a transportation route from a pick-up point to a destination point, generating a plurality of candidate dispatch rout...