ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,347, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control apparatus, vehicle, and control method" was invented by Chikage Kubo (Chofu, Japan), Kenichi Yamada (Nisshin, Japan), Yuki Tatsumoto (Seto, Japan), Hiromitsu Fujii (Kariya, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Naito (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each of users when each of the users gets on a vehicle to be operated with the users on board to a destination having a plurality of facilities, identify, based on the acquired profile data, a...