US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 2 for "Systems and methods for indicating a vehicle virtual connection" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,823, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for indicating a vehicle virtual connection" was invented by Lisa Maitre (Milford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to indicating a vehicle virtual connection to users in an environment surrounding the virtually-connected vehicles. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to 1) d...