ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,964, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Questionnaire apparatus, questionnaire method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Sokfan Yee (Toyota, Japan), Hiromitsu Kobayashi (Nisshin, Japan) and Takashi Tokuyama (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an evaluation apparatus which evaluates autonomous driving performed by the autonomous driving vehicle. The present disclosure provides a technique which enables carrying out a questionnaire composed of one or more appropriate questions while reducing the number of the questions. ...