US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for avoiding obstacles in a virtually connected convoy" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,246, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for avoiding obstacles in a virtually connected convoy" was invented by Shaurya Panthri (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving obstacle avoidance for a virtually connected convoy of vehicles. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting an obstacle in a path of a convoy, determining that a vehicle in the convoy is to execute obstacle avoidance based on a property of the ve...