ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,539, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for active road surface maintenance with cloud-based mobility digital twin" was invented by Ziran Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Rohit Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active road surface maintenance system and method developed for connected vehicles with the aid of a mobility digital twin (MDT) framework. A method performed in a cloud-based digital space includes receiving data regarding a physica...