ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,080, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Applying a customized vehicle application" 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 identifying, via a vehicle application of a vehicle, one or more topics of interest associated with a vehicle occupant based one or more vehicle occupant behaviors detected by the vehicle, applying, via the vehicle applicati...