US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Vehicle platform, vehicle control interface box, and autonomous driving system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,994, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle platform, vehicle control interface box, and autonomous driving system" was invented by Go Tanaka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VP is configured such that an ADS is installable in the VP. The VP includes a base vehicle and a VCIB. The VCIB acts as an interface between the base vehicle and the ADS by CAN communication. The VCIB includes a reception unit, an index value calculation unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives a control request for the base vehicle from the ADS. The index value calculation unit calculates...