US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Selective information gathering system for multiple vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,070, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Selective information gathering system for multiple vehicles" was invented by Emrah Akin Sisbot (Mountain View, Calif.), Yashar Zeiynali Farid (Mountain View, Calif.), Xiaofei Cao (Mountain View, Calif.), Haritha Muralidharan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for the reduction or elimination of redundant, uninteresting, and/or inefficient communications to remote devices (e.g. cloud se...