US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 1 for "Contextually adapted access privileges" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,598, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Contextually adapted access privileges" was invented by Alexander Charles Granieri (Mountain View, Calif.), Jimmy Chiu (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Robert Hilnbrand (San Jose, Calif.), Vincent Sarcia Pascual (Dublin, Calif.) and Tyler La Monda (Fairfield, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving vehicle access according to a present context. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data about an environment of a vehicle. The method includes, responsive to receiving a request...