US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 8 for "Gesture-based search systems and methods for vehicles that output primary and secondary search results" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,819, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Gesture-based search systems and methods for vehicles that output primary and secondary search results" was invented by Alexander Charles Granieri (Mountain View, Calif.), Jimmy Chiu (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Robert Hilnbrand (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Navid Fattahi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to gesture-based searching in a vehicle. In one embodiment, a vehicle-based search system, in response to detecting a gesture performed by an occupant of a ...