ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,944, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Remote startup system, center server, and remote startup method" was invented by Yasuyuki Tamane (Miyoshi, Japan) and Masato Endo (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote start system includes: a terminal; a center server configured to receive a startup request; and a vehicle having a driving device, the vehicle configured to receive a startup request, and start up the driving device, wherein at least one of the center server and the vehicle includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on transmission availabili...