ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,847, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Initiating operating behavior between vehicles" was invented by Joshua C. Batie (Frisco, Texas), Louis Brugman (Frisco, Texas) and Imad Zahid (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of: determining an operating behavior of a first vehicle that is not part of a connected vehicle system from a device communicatively coupled to the first vehicle, wherein the device is configured to operate with the connected vehicle system; determining that the operating beh...