US Patent Issued to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for generating sound tokens" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,016, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for generating sound tokens" was invented by David Tsai (Irvine, Calif.), Will Hargis (Celina, Texas) and Charan S. Lota (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating sound tokens, and methods for operating a vehicle are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating a sound token includes recording a sound of an object, generating a sound profile of the object, and storing the sound profile as a non-fungible token on a blockchain."

The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2022, under Appl...