ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,828, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Remote travel system" was invented by Tatsuya Hashimoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a remote travel system, a vehicle control device of a host vehicle and a terminal control device of an operation terminal perform wireless communication with each other, and the vehicle control device performs remote travel control of making the host vehicle travel autonomously to a designated stall in response to operation of the operation terminal. The remote travel system is configured such that a stall registered in the remote travel system is allowe...