US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on April 22 for "Systems for pod movers" (New York, Connecticut, Texas, Michigan, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,815, issued on April 22, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems for pod movers" was invented by John F. Daly (Frisco, Texas), Adrian Lombard (Saline, Mich.), Satoshi Nagashima (New York), Trinell Ball (Stamford, Conn.), Brent Bowen (Salt Lake City) and Vic Hoffman (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are apparatus for a system includes a main vehicle and a secondary vehicle configured to couple to the main vehicle. The secondary vehicle includes a wheel configured to move the secondary vehicle and a body cou...