US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 16 for "Data communication with remote operation of a vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,086, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Achi-Ken, Japan).

"Data communication with remote operation of a vehicle" was invented by Sergei S. Avedisov (Cupertino, Calif.), Mohammad Irfan Khan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of responsive to an inoperability of a vehicle above a threshold, requesting for the vehicle to be remotely operated, receiving software, by the vehicle, based on the level of inoperability, responsive to an ins...