ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,343, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Motion state monitoring system, method for controlling the same, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Makoto Kobayashi (Nisshin, Japan), Takeru Fukagawa (Kariya, Japan) and Hidetaka Sasaki (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion state monitoring system according to the present disclosure is a motion state monitoring system configured to monitor a motion of a subject in accordance with a result of detection sent from each of a plurality of sensors corresponding to a plurality of respective body parts of a body of the subj...