US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on Feb. 10 for "Vehicle sanitizing systems and methods for using the same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,471, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Vehicle sanitizing systems and methods for using the same" was invented by James H. Kikuma (Plano, Texas), Judy K. Chen (Dallas), Juan Acosta (The Colony, Texas) and Sergei I. Gage (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a vehicle body defining a vehicle interior and a vehicle exterior, one or more detection devices, a sanitization device, and a controller, the controller including a processor and a non-transitory computer readable and executable instruction set, which when executed, causes the processor to receive data f...