ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,213, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas), TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle-based health monitoring" was invented by Simon P. Roberts (Celina, Texas), Sergei I. Gage (Dallas), Yang Ding (Montreal), Christopher J. Macpherson (Plano, Texas), Michael R. Kushnerik (The Colony, Texas), Naohiro J. Matsumura (Dallas), Cory M. Frank (Frisco, Texas), Jessica May (Danbury, Texas) and Matthew J. Everett (Norton Shores, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining a condition at a loca...