US Patent Issued to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 16 for "Occupant condition detection and response" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,947, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas), TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Occupant condition detection and response" 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 determining a movem...