US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 3 for "Route prediction with city nodes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,718, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Route prediction with city nodes" was invented by Imad Zahid (Carrollton, Texas), Sumit K. Jha (Frisco, Texas), Anil Nagpal (Plano, Texas), Joshua C. Batie (Frisco, Texas) and Nikhil Rajendra (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining data to be provided to a vehicle, determining data to be retrieved from the vehicle, determining a route for the vehicle based on an amount of time the data is provided to the vehicle and the data is retrieved from the vehi...