US Patent Issued to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA on Nov. 4 for "Ranking carbon footprints of vehicles to determine driving behavior modifications" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,937, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Ranking carbon footprints of vehicles to determine driving behavior modifications" was invented by Olarinre Salako (Plano, Texas), Mehmet Cil (Plano, Texas), Varun Prasad (Plano, Texas), Daniel Ellis Holman (Plano, Texas), Shravanthi Denthumdas (Frisco, Texas), Danny Bargas (Plano, Texas), Jennifer Lerman (Plano, Texas) and Brian M. Kursar (Fairview, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of: determining a first subgroup of a group of vehicles and a second subgroup of the group of vehicles, wherein the se...