US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 2 for "Vehicle assessment systems and methods" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,346, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle assessment systems and methods" was invented by Geoffrey David Gaither (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Allison McGowan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Nathan C. Westover (New Hudson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assessment method for a vehicle part includes an identifying feature of the vehicle part with a visual detector. The assessment method includes identifying the vehicle part with a processing unit based on the identifying feature. The assessment method includes detecting a v...