US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 7 for "Autonomous driving vehicle system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,743, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous driving vehicle system" was invented by Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan), Kentaro Ichikawa (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Taisuke Sugaiwa (Susono, Japan) and Toshiki Kindo (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an acquisition unit that acquires an operation amount or a duration count, and a switching unit that switches a driving state. The switching unit switches the driving state to the cooperative driving state when the operation amount is equal to or greater than an intervention threshold and less than a start threshold or the ...