ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,684, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control interface, vehicle, and control method for vehicle" was invented by Kenichi Yamada (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control interface includes: a memory in which a program including a predetermined API defined for each of signals is stored; and a processor configured to perform interfacing between an autonomous driving system and a vehicle platform by executing the program. The vehicle platform is configured to be activated in response to one of a first and second activation commands. The first activation command is a...