US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 23 for "Temperature-regulating storage system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,031, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Temperature-regulating storage system" was invented by David T. Nakayama (Canton, Mich.), Ryan C. Harris (Saline, Mich.), Peter C. Piper (Saline, Mich.) and Matthew K. Killeen (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes a storage surface for storing a container thereon. The storage surface defines a storage surface ridge. The storage surface ridge defines a cavity. The storage surface further defines a storage surface valley. The storage surface rid...