US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 2 for "Autonomous driving system, vehicle control interface, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,907, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous driving system, vehicle control interface, and vehicle" was invented by Ikuma Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan) and Eisuke Ando (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VP includes an EPB system configured to switch between activation and release of brakehold and a VCIB that interfaces between an ADS and a VP. The VCIB is configured to provide a standstill status signal to the ADS. The standstill status signal includes a value applied indicating activation of brakehold and a value released indicating release of brakehold. The ADS includes a compute ...