US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on Jan. 13 for "Methods and systems for sharing detected changes in roads using blockchains" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,778, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Methods and systems for sharing detected changes in roads using blockchains" was invented by Jaspal Singh (Hicksville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for sharing detected changes in roads using blockchains in a network. The network includes vehicles operable to detect a change in a road, a plurality of local blockchains, and a global blockchain. The vehicles are divided into groups of local vehicles. The plurality of local blockchains includes local blocks of changes, wherein after a first vehicle publishes a change of...