ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,491, issued on June 9, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Vehicular knowledge networking assisted ADAS configuration" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, Calif.), Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.) and Chang-Heng Wang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving first data from one or more vehicles in a geographic area, the first data indicating operation of an active safety system by at least one of the one or more vehicles, receiving second data indicating driving performance of the on...