US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Context-based identification of vehicle connectivity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,328, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Context-based identification of vehicle connectivity" was invented by Sergei S. Avedisov (Cupertino, Calif.), Hongsheng Lu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of identifying, via an ego vehicle, one or more surrounding vehicles of the ego vehicle based on sensor data from the ego vehicle, determining a state of an ego vehicle and a state of the one or more surrounding vehicles...