US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 14 for "Vehicle and interface system for autonomous driving with fault-based operational requests" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,340, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle and interface system for autonomous driving with fault-based operational requests" was invented by Eisuke Ando (Nagoya, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Miura (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VCIB performs processing including issuing a request for maintenance after a vehicle returns when the vehicle is carrying out autonomous driving, a failure occurs, and the vehicle is able to continue a service operation, stopping the service operation and outputting a back request when the vehicle is unable to continue the service operation and the vehicle ...