ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,952, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle including a vehicle platform that transitions to a wake mode according to a wake command" was invented by Haruki Oguri (Toyota, Japan), Go Tanaka (Toyota, Japan) and Kenichi Yamada (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle includes a vehicle platform configured to be capable of receiving commands related to autonomous driving from the autonomous driving kit. The autonomous driving kit is configured to transmit a wake command to the vehicle platform requesting transition of the power mode of the vehicle platform to the wake mode. The...