ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,759, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle with switchable forward and backward configurations, control method, and control program" was invented by Taizo Masuda (Yokohama, Japan), Kiyoto Sasaki (Susono, Japan), Daisuke Kakuma (Toyota, Japan), Hiroyoshi Masui (Susono, Japan), Akihiro Yamaguchi (Toyota, Japan), Sokfan Yee (Toyota, Japan) and Yuki Nishikawa (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a first riding space and a second riding space, each of which is a riding position on one side and the other side of a right side and a lef...