ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,110, issued on March 24, was assigned to Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for real-time vehicle upgrade and customization" was invented by Sergei Gage (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle upgrade system includes a processor and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the processor and including one or more instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processor to access a digital non-fungible token wallet of a vehicle owner; import one or more customization NFTs stored in the digital NFT wallet...