US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for securing cargo using inflatable panels" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,974, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for securing cargo using inflatable panels" was invented by Weiling Wang (Livonia, Mich.) and Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to securing cargo in a cargo area of a vehicle using inflatable panels. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data about a cargo area of a vehicle from at least one sensor, identifying a presence and a location of an item in the cargo area according to the sensor data, ...