US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on March 31 for "Motion sickness mitigation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,769, issued on March 31, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Motion sickness mitigation" was invented by John D. Harkleroad (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Vasudeva S. Murthy (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to detecting whether a user in a vehicle is experiencing motion sickness. In one embodiment, a method includes determining whether a user in a vehicle is experiencing motion sickness based on a first movement measurement of the vehicle and a second movement measur...