US Patent Issued to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA on July 8 for "Vehicular enclosed area determination" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,176, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Vehicular enclosed area determination" was invented by Olarinre Salako (Little Elm, Texas) and Farzam Ghanbarnezhad (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining a maneuvering of a vehicle before an idling of the vehicle, determining a delta of a sound of the idling and a sound of the vehicle moving, and determining the vehicle is in an enclosed area, based on the maneuvering and the delta when a time of the idling is greater than a threshold."

The patent was filed on Dec. 16, 2022, unde...