US Patent Issued to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA on July 29 for "Micromobility detection and avoidance" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,007, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Micromobility detection and avoidance" was invented by Masahiro W. Muramatsu (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining a number of micromobility transports in an area, determining a speed and a direction of the micromobility transports, notifying a vehicle approaching the area when the number of the micromobility transports is above a threshold and the speed and the direction will cause an event with the vehicle, and providing a position and a speed to the vehicle to navigate th...