ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,304, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Compensate for performance degradation through vehicular knowledge networking" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.) and Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for compensating for performance degradation on an edge of the vehicular knowledge network. An example includes detecting a performance result of first guidance performed by a first vehicle in a first driving environment that differs from an expect...