US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Sept. 15 for "Methods and systems for providing roadside drone service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,152, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Methods and systems for providing roadside drone service" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Akila C. Ganlath (Agua Dulce, Calif.) and Prashant Tiwari (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving, at a vehicle system of a vehicle, sensor data from one or more sensors; detecting an object based on the sensor data; determining whether a dynamic map maintained by a remote computing device includes the detected object; upon determination that the dynamic map includes th...