US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 6 for "Methods, systems, and devices for automatic opening and closing of a garage door" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,590, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Japan).

"Methods, systems, and devices for automatic opening and closing of a garage door" was invented by Timothy Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Roger Akira Kyle (Aubrey, Texas), Bryan Else Yamasaki (Aubrey, Texas), Justin K. Shen (Canton, Mich.), Jackson Zhu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xiao Xu (Novi, Mich.) and Michael R. Kushnerik (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for an automatic garage door system for a vehicle. The system may include one or more occupant sensor...