US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Feb. 10 for "Audio and visual environment for a pedestrian" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,359, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Audio and visual environment for a pedestrian" was invented by Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Mich.) and William Patrick Garrett (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving an audio and/or visual environment of a pedestrian. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying at least one device in an environment of a pedestrian that produces an output perceivable by the ...