US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 15 for "Route intelligence for city nodes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,687, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Route intelligence for city nodes" was invented by Imad Zahid (Carrollton, Texas), Sumit K. Jha (Frisco, Texas), Anil Nagpal (Plano, Texas), Joshua C. Batie (Frisco, Texas) and Nikhil Rajendra (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining by a primary computing node that an en route vehicle will be delayed for a time-sensitive event, coordinating by the primary computing node with a secondary computing node at an event location and the en route vehicle ...