US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Safe vehicle backup navigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,236, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Safe vehicle backup navigation" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Qi Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a processor, first data from a first sensor and second data from a second sensor, on a vehicle, receiving, by the processor, third data from a sensor on a further vehicle, wherein the third data is not observable by the first sensor, interworking, by the processor, the first dat...