ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,145, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle state presentation system, vehicle, terminal device, and vehicle state presentation method" was invented by Hiroki Okada (Toyota, Japan), Ryuta Atsumi (Toyota, Japan), Satoshi Fujisaki (Nagoya, Japan), Daisuke Hiroki (Toda, Japan) and Shinpei Asai (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device separate from a vehicle includes a receiver that receives a notification signal from the vehicle indicating that the vehicle is in a first state different from a second state, a notification unit that notifies a user of the terminal device ...