ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,173, issued on May 20.

"Extracting temporal specifications of features for functional compatibility and integration with OEMs" was invented by Aniruddh G. Puranic (Mountain View, Calif.), Akihito Nakamura (Toyota, Japan) and BaekGyu Kim (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes embodiments for testing a third-party feature for compatibility and integration with an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vehicle design. A method includes modifying a vehicle design to include a third-party feature, where modifying the vehicle design generates a modified vehicle design. The method includes executing a s...