US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 2 for "Method and apparatus for determining fueling station wait times" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,122, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for determining fueling station wait times" was invented by Dallas K. Fox (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for estimating the time required for a vehicle to visit a fueling station. The system includes a fueling station server associated with the fueling station and configured to transmit, over a network, a plurality of fueling station parameters. The system also includes sensors within the vehicle; a navigation syst...