ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,275, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Context-based searching systems and methods for vehicles" was invented by Alexander Charles Granieri (Mountain View, Calif.), Jimmy Chiu (San Jose, Calif.), Navid Fattahi (San Jose, Calif.), Brian R. Hilnbrand (San Jose, Calif.), Owen Davis (Berkeley, Calif.), Conor Powers Sullivan (Campbell, Calif.), Vincent Pascual (Dublin, Calif.), Roger Louie (San Francisco), Carlos Aldama (Salinas, Calif.), Tristan Robert Littlehale (San Jose, Calif.) and Armon Jonathan Amirriazi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other em...