ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,470, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for autonomous vehicle" was invented by Yushi Shibaike (Susono, Japan), Go Inoue (Gotemba, Japan), Yutaka Aoki (Mishima, Japan), Yushi Nagata (Atsugi, Japan), Shogo Takahira (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Takahiro Kojo (Gotemba, Japan), Yoji Kunihiro (Susono, Japan) and Hiroki Shizuhata (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle control device configured to determine a control input for causing an automatic driving to travel along a target trajectory determined based on an estimated current location of the vehicle by repeated...