US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Setting a mode of a vehicle" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,291, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Setting a mode of a vehicle" was invented by Edward Allen Cain Jr. (Plano, Texas), Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, Texas) and Ryan N. Wilson (Melissa, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes setting a mode of a vehicle based on an operation of the vehicle, a characteristic of the vehicle, a time, and/or a location of the vehicle. The mode is any of a service mode wherein personal information of a user of the vehicle is inaccessible; a development mode wherein a functionality of ...