US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor North America, Toyota Jidosha on June 23 for "Methods and systems for vehicle control with customizable commands" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,146, issued on June 23, was assigned to Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Methods and systems for vehicle control with customizable commands" was invented by Robert Heckel (Katy, Texas), Mark Anthony McClung (Celina, Texas), Steven S. Basra (Frisco, Texas), Charan S. Lota (Frisco, Texas), Benjamin R. Resnick (Plano, Texas), Ryan Wheeler (Denton, Texas), Lokesh Kumar Viswavarapu (Frisco, Texas), Raja Shekar Kilaru (Addison, Texas) and Nikhil Rajendra (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and methods for customizable commands for vehicle operation include o...