US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "AI-based system for prolonging the life of a vehicle" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,261, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"AI-based system for prolonging the life of a vehicle" was invented by Imad Zahid (Carrollton, Texas) and Joshua C. Batie (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving sensor data of a vehicle as the vehicle travels along a route, identifying an attribute of the vehicle that is degrading while the vehicle is travelling along the route based on the sensor data, determining an action to take to reduce degradation of the attribute of the vehicle when tra...