US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Feb. 24 for "Methods for deploying power running boards on vehicles" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,034, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Methods for deploying power running boards on vehicles" was invented by Timothy Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Roger Akira Kyle (Aubrey, Texas), Bryan Else Yamasaki (Frisco, Texas), Justin K Shen (Canton, Mich.), Jackson Zhu (Belleville, Mich.) and Sean Xu (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a deployable power running board of a vehicle is provided. The method includes receiving sensor data from the vehicle, the sensor data indicating a distance between the power r...