ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,984, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Remote support system and remote support method" was invented by Yusuke Hayashi (Susono, Japan) and Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote support system is configured to determine whether a vehicle collides with an object to be avoided when the vehicle gets into a remote control request situation, stop to send a remote control request when the remote support system determines that the vehicle does not collide with the object, generate a first speed plan for the vehicle to continue autonomous driving at a predicted collision po...