ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,810, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System and method for opening boarding door" was invented by Rika Oike (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of opening a boarding door of a vehicle that provides use of a trunk room to a passenger reserving the trunk room. The method comprises keeping the boarding door closed until both a first condition and a second condition are satisfied and opening the boarding door or enabling the boarding door to be opened in response to both the first condition and the second condition being satisfied. Here, the first...