US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Air-conditioning control device and computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,097, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Air-conditioning control device and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Shigeki Nakayama (Gotenba, Japan), Tomohiro Kaneko (Mishima, Japan) and Kotoru Sato (Hadano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-conditioning control device includes a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to execute: estimating an emotion of an occupant in a vehicle interior when a spot air conditioning is performed on the occupant; and controlling the spot air conditioning based on an estimation result."

The patent was filed on Oct. 2, ...