US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on July 21 for "Systems and methods for externally communicating vehicular gaming status" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,942, issued on July 21, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Systems and methods for externally communicating vehicular gaming status" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), Philip J. Babian (Canton, Mich.), Joshua E. Domeyer (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Marc D. Reish (Pinckney, Mich.), Takeshi Yoshida (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Rebecca L. Kirschweng (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for externally communicating vehicular gaming status are disclosed he...