US Patent Issued to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on Aug. 25 for "Minimizing airborne objects in a collision" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,429, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Minimizing airborne objects in a collision" was invented by Simon P. Roberts (Celina, Texas), Yang Ding (Montreal), Daniel Warren Reaser (Oak Point, Texas), Christopher J. Macpherson (Plano, Texas), Keaton Khonsari (Plano, Texas), Derek A. Thompson (Dallas) and Sergei Gage (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining one or more objects in a transport that may become airborne and altering a portion of the transport to minimize the one or more...