US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods to determine awakening lead time for waking up sleeping driver" (Michigan, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,704, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods to determine awakening lead time for waking up sleeping driver" was invented by Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), John K. Lenneman (Okemos, Mich.), Joshua E. Domeyer (Madison, Wis.) and Philip J. Babian (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods providing sleep service in a vehicle to wake up a sleeping driver at a wake-up time based on the user profile of the driver are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sleeping service system inclu...