ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,038, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle" was invented by Haruki Oguri (Toyota, Japan) and Kenichi Yamada (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a vehicle platform configured to execute a plurality of predetermined functions of the vehicle; an autonomous driving kit that is configured to issue an instruction for autonomous driving and is attachable to and detachable from the vehicle platform; and a vehicle control interface box configured to communicate with the autonomous driving kit and issue a control instruction to the vehicle platform based on an instruct...