ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,207, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Automated driving management system and automated driving management method" was invented by Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan), Yusuke Hayashi (Susono, Japan) and Daichi Hotta (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated driving management system is applied to a vehicle that performs automated driving by using a perception sensor. The automated driving management system acquires first sensor perception information indicating a result of perception by the perception sensor. Reference information indicates a correspondence relationship between a ...