ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,359, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle, vehicle platform, vehicle control interface box, autonomous driving kit, control method of vehicle, and control method of vehicle platform for platform-adaptive control" was invented by Tomo Sasaki (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The VCIB includes a memory, a communication unit, and a processor. The memory stores beforehand pieces of execution information that are used to execute processes corresponding respectively to a plurality of APIs included in an API set that is a combination of APIs for requesting the VP to execute a predeterm...