US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Nov. 18 for "Methods and systems for a detection of objects that are likely to fall from vehicle cargo" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,574, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Methods and systems for a detection of objects that are likely to fall from vehicle cargo" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Emrah Akin Sisbot (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting objects that are likely to fall from vehicle cargo includes obtaining first data of a cargo of a first vehicle captured at a first time and second data of the cargo captured by a second vehicle in an en...