US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engingeering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on May 27 for "Methods and systems for identifying underused properties and utilizing underused properties by leveraging mobile units" (California, New York, Michigan, Texas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,993, issued on May 27, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engingeering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Methods and systems for identifying underused properties and utilizing underused properties by leveraging mobile units" was invented by Baik Hoh (Mountain View, Calif.), Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.), John F. Daly (Frisco, Texas), Akio Orii (Redwood City, Calif.), Satoshi Nagashima (Long Island City, N.Y.), Adrian Lombard (Royal Oak, Mich.), Paul Li (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kruti Vekaria (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system inc...