US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 28 for "Autonomous driving kit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,214, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous driving kit" was invented by Haruki Oguri (Toyota, Japan), Ikuma Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan) and Hiroki Asao (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "ADK includes a computer and a communication module. VP includes a non-redundant control system that performs a non-redundant control function, a first bus, a second bus, a first VCIB that is configured to be communicable with the communication module via the first bus and provides a control instruction to the non-redundant control system in accordance with a non-redundant control command for controll...