US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Aug. 25 for "Driving environment gamification" (Michigan, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,290, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Driving environment gamification" was invented by Hossein Hamidi Shishavan (New Britain, Conn.), Danny J. Lohan (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Sean P. Rodrigues (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Paul Donald Schmalenberg (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recreation of a driving environment of a vehicle can be gamified based on a determined emotional state of a vehicle occupant and/or a user preference. The gamified recreation of the driving environment can be caused to be presented...