US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 4 for "Computer, vehicle, server, mobile terminal, and vehicle management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,476, issued on March 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Computer, vehicle, server, mobile terminal, and vehicle management method" was invented by Ryosuke Kobayashi (Nagakute, Japan), Tomokazu Maya (Nagoya, Japan), Tsuyoshi Okada (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiromitsu Fujii (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a diagnosis unit configured to, for a vehicle in which an abnormality has occurred and continuing traveling by autonomous driving is impossible, determine whether or not the vehicle is able to be restored on a spot and whether or not the vehicle is able to travel by manual driving. Such...