US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for vacant property identification and display" (New York, Michigan, Texas, Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,939, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for vacant property identification and display" was invented by Satoshi Nagashima (Long Island City, N.Y.), John F. Daly (Frisco, Texas), Adrian Lombard (Royal Oak, Mich.), Paul Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Kruti Vekaria (Arlington, Va.) and Baik Hoh (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location matching method is provided. The method comprises receiving one or more photos of one or more vacant properties and surroundings of the one or more vac...