US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Jan. 20 for "Mobile device with adaptable speed for assisting a user" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,465, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Mobile device with adaptable speed for assisting a user" was invented by Christopher T. Standley (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and John Charles Rafferty (Dexter, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mobile devices described herein relate to assisting users. In one embodiment, a mobile device for assisting a user is disclosed. The mobile device includes a motor, one or more sensors, a processor, and a memory communicably coupled to the processor and including instructions that, when executed...