ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,993, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle" 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 is a vehicle on which an autonomous driving kit (ADK) is mountable. The vehicle includes: a vehicle platform (VP) that controls the vehicle in accordance with an instruction from the ADK; and a vehicle control interface that serves as an interface between the ADK and the VP. The VP receives a driver deceleration request in accordance with an amount of depression of a brake pedal by a driver, and receives a system deceleration reques...