ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,830, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Motion-based transport assessment" was invented by Joshua V. Marasigan (Carrollton, Texas), Robert D. Slater (Murphy, Texas), Felipe G. Salles (Garland, Texas) and Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of obtaining, by a moving vehicle, a first data including one or more of at least one first video and at least one first image of a moving transport, analyzing the first data, by the moving vehicle, to determine an initial issue, querying, by the moving vehicle, a server f...