US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for extending sensor and lighting coverage between vehicles" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,231, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for extending sensor and lighting coverage between vehicles" was invented by Shaurya Panthri (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the sensing and lighting coverage of a first vehicle using a second vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes determining at least one of a sensor coverage and a lighting coverage of a first vehicle and a second vehicle. The method further in...