US Patent Issued to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOT JIDOSHA on April 8 for "In-cabin detection framework" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,371, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas), TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOT JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"In-cabin detection framework" was invented by Simon P. Roberts (Celina, Texas), Sergei I. Gage (Dallas), Yang Ding (Montreal), Christopher J. Macpherson (Plano, Texas), Michael R. Kushnerik (The Colony, Texas), Naohiro J. Matsumura (Dallas), Cory M. Frank (Frisco, Texas), Jessica May (Danbury, Texas) and Matthew J. Everett (Norton Shores, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving a scan of a cabin of a ve...