US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Feb. 17 for "System and method for providing a safe path for an occupant of a vehicle to utilize after exiting the vehicle" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,722, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System and method for providing a safe path for an occupant of a vehicle to utilize after exiting the vehicle" was invented by Hideki Hada (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and other embodiments for providing a safe path for an occupant of a vehicle to utilize after exiting the vehicle. In one example, a system includes a processor and a memory having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to determine...