ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,097, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Vehicle occupant preference-based data delivery" was invented by Imad Zahid (Carrollton, Texas), Livesey N. George (Allen, Texas), Indhar C. Gopalakrishnan (Allen, Texas), William J. Elmore (Dallas), Daisuke Muramoto (McKinney, Texas), Preeya Samudrala (Plano, Texas) and Reshma Thomas (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a vehicle, data preferences of one or more occupants in the vehicle, sending, by the vehicle, data to the one of more occup...