US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 21 for "Content delivery based on a vehicle providing energy" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,980, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Content delivery based on a vehicle providing energy" was invented by James D. Wilder (Dallas) and Geoffrey David Gaither (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of detecting that a vehicle is connected to a charging point, transmitting a request to a device associated with the vehicle for the vehicle to provide energy to the charging point, and in response, providing content to the device based on an amount of the energy provided."

The patent was fil...