US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 2 for "Driver condition-based vehicle navigation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,721, issued on June 2, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Driver condition-based vehicle navigation" was invented by Charan S. Lota (Frisco, Texas) and Steven S. Basra (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining a stress level of an individual prior to occupying a vehicle, responsive to a destination of the vehicle being above a first threshold and the stress level being above a second threshold, determining a route for the vehicle, and providing the determined route on a device associated with the indivi...