US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 4 for "Vehicle with mountable and removable autonomous driving system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,533, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle with mountable and removable autonomous driving system" 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 comprises an autonomous driving system and a vehicle platform that controls the vehicle in response to a command received from the autonomous driving system. In the vehicle, when a first signal indicates an autonomous mode, the vehicle platform performs a shift change requested through a first command only while the second signal indicates a standstill."

The patent was filed on A...