US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor, Renault on March 4 for "Vehicle management system and vehicle management method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,472, issued on March 4, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan) and Renault SAS (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Vehicle management system and vehicle management method" was invented by Radim Zemek (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle management system, an on-vehicle system, and a vehicle management method capable of providing a vehicle of which an odor level in the vehicle fulfills a predetermined criterion, to a user. The vehicle management system acquires a vehicle interior odor data output by an odor sensor arranged in the vehicle, and determine...