US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for adjusting wheel rotational speed to reduce passenger motion sickness" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,235, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for adjusting wheel rotational speed to reduce passenger motion sickness" was invented by Hiroshi Yasuda (San Carlos, Calif.) and Andrea Michelle Rios Lazcano (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to reducing passenger motion sickness resulting from a pitch change of a vehicle as a navigated road changes slope. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a slope in a road in front of a vehicle and detecting a motio...