US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 12 for "Apparatus, system, and method for automatically switching to a digital multimedia content provider" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,059, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Japan).

"Apparatus, system, and method for automatically switching to a digital multimedia content provider" was invented by Ming Michael Meng (Novi, Mich.) and Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for automatically switching to a digital multimedia content provider. The system includes a server in data communication with one or more vehicles and one or more digital multimedia content provider servers. The server may include a memor...