US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 27 for "Threshold setting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,967, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Threshold setting device" was invented by Kazunori Kaneko (Miyoshi, Japan) and Yohei Ito (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When it is not determined that the execution device has detected the in-cabin mobile terminal, the execution device changes the threshold by a specified amount. Thereafter, when it is determined that the execution device detects the in-cabin mobile terminal and the execution device does not detect the external mobile terminal, the execution device ends the setting of the threshold. When the execution device detects the exte...