US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 2 for "System and method for modifying the longitudinal position of a vehicle with respect to another vehicle to increase privacy" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,922, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System and method for modifying the longitudinal position of a vehicle with respect to another vehicle to increase privacy" was invented by Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.), Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco) and Andrea Lazcano (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for increasing the privacy of occupants of a vehicle are disclosed. In one example, a system includes a processor and a memory that has a privacy module with instructions. The instructions cause the processor to determine a first vehicle viewing area of a first vehic...