ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,070, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Protecting living objects in transports" 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 detecting a living element in a transport, determining a dangerous condition exists in response to an internal temperature of the transport is...