US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 13 for "Autonomous driving system for communicating with and controlling a vehicle via a vehicle control interface" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,821, issued on May 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous driving system for communicating with and controlling a vehicle via a vehicle control interface" was invented by Ikuma Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan) and Yuta Ohashi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle comprises an autonomous driving system and a vehicle platform that controls the vehicle in response to a command received from the autonomous driving system. In the present vehicle, when the autonomous driving system issues a first command to request the vehicle platform to provide deceleration to stop the vehicle and a first signal ind...