ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,647, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Devices and methods of decentralized on-demand multivehicle delivery" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nejib Ammar (San Jose, Calif.) and Akila C. Ganlath (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device and a method to generate a decentralized delivery scheme for multivehicle in an interested area may comprise the following steps. First, the computing device may receive map data, travel request data, and service vehicle data. Second, the comp...