ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,518, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Methods and systems for detecting gunpowder" was invented by Gupta G. K. Wijeratne (Prosper, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for detecting gunpowder are provided. The method includes collecting sensor data from a plurality of vehicles each comprising one or more gunpowder sensors, detecting presence of gunpowder based on the sensor data of the gunpowder sensors, determining a detection location where the presence of gunpowder is detected based on vehicle location data from the vehicle...