US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 3 for "Controller, control method, and non-transitory computer readable media" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,318, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Controller, control method, and non-transitory computer readable media" was invented by Hojung Jung (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a vehicle capable of autonomous driving. The controller executes detecting an emergency vehicle traveling around the vehicle based on surrounding environment information, and determining how to deal with the emergency vehicle in response to a detection of the emergency vehicle. In the determining how to deal with the emergency vehicle, the controller execute...