US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 7 for "Approaching vehicle support and collaborative upload by vehicular micro clouds" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,118, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Approaching vehicle support and collaborative upload by vehicular micro clouds" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Chunghan Lee (Mountain View, Calif.), Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for enhancing a vehicle's approaching vehicle response system. A vehicular micro cloud (VMC) can be formed in response to a subject vehicle activating an approaching vehic...