US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on June 23 for "Hardware timer data expiration" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,130, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Hardware timer data expiration" was invented by Roger J. Baker (Frisco, Texas) and Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining a portion of memory in a transport to store data, establishing a timeframe when the data may be accessed based on a type of the data, and clearing the data from the portion of memory after the timeframe. The type of the data may be related to one or more of the transport and an occupant of the transport. A length of the timeframe is inversely...