ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,009, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Vehicle data services configurable deployment" was invented by Randall M. Harris (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of linking a mobile device and a vehicle, configuring, on the mobile device, a data service request, receiving at a controller area network of the vehicle the data service request from the mobile device, and displaying within the vehicle a data set responsive to the configuring."
The patent was filed on July 15, 2022, under Application No. 17/8...