US Patent Issued to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA on Feb. 24 for "Modeling driver style to lower a carbon footprint" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,696, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Modeling driver style to lower a carbon footprint" was invented by Olarinre Salako (Little Elm, Texas), Varun Prasad (Dallas), Daniel Ellis Holman (Allen, Texas), Farzam Ghanbarnezhad (Frisco, Texas), Danny P. Bargas (Coppell, Texas), Rohit Mishra (Hayward, Calif.) and Jennifer C. Lerman (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes comparing a first set of driving styles for a vehicle to a second set of driving styles for one or more similar vehicles in a geographic area over a period, wherein the first set of driving ...