ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,379, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Customer preference driven vehicle supply management system" was invented by Ram Kurapati (Southlake, Texas), Munish Goyal (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Muttu Vastrad (Frisco, Texas), Audrey Mito (The Colony, Texas), Smail Haddad (Plano, Texas), Doug S. Campbell (McKinney, Texas), Philip W. Ryan (Frisco, Texas), Ramesh Gangadharan (Suwanee, Ga.), Mai Miller (Celina, Texas) and Srinivas Prasad (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an application configured to, based on user inputs, ge...