US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 22 for "State switching device, moving object, and manufacturing method of moving object" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,409, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"State switching device, moving object, and manufacturing method of moving object" was invented by Kento Iwahori (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state switching device includes: a progress status acquisition unit that acquires a progress status of processing performed on a moving object in a manufacturing process of the moving object in a factory for manufacturing the moving object movable by unmanned driving, the moving object including at least one device; a device determination unit that determines a device to be switched to an actuation s...