ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,484, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing Norther America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for generating autonomous navigation routes to match user preferences" was invented by Frankie Reed (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating autonomous navigation routes to match user preferences include an autonomous vehicle and a routing system configured to (i) generate a unique route to satisfy driving past at least one user event request to navigate the autonomous vehicle arrive at a destination and (ii) navigate the autonomous vehicle to the destina...