US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on Feb. 24 for "Modification of transport functionality based on carbon footprint" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,967, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Modification of transport functionality based on carbon footprint" was invented by Trent B. Bennett (Prosper, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To encourage users to improve their carbon footprint, a transport may be provided with an enhanced operating manner in response to external events that lower the carbon footprint of one or more occupants of the transport. Events, such as lowering the energy consumption of a person's home dwelling, may be communicated to the transport and trigger an enhanced mode in the transport, such as an enhanced dr...