US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor North America, Toyota Jidosha on Feb. 24 for "Methods, systems, and vehicles for dynamic routing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,445, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Methods, systems, and vehicles for dynamic routing" was invented by Joshua Batie (Frisco, Texas), Imad Zahid (Carrollton, Texas), Sivasubramanian Sivalingam (Plano, Texas) and Steve Basra (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes receiving, by a processor, a current location of a vehicle, a destination location, and a routing plan having a routing factor and a reward arrangement, planning, by the processor, a planned route fr...