US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 4 for "Artificial intelligence and content delivery during charging" (Texas, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,721, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Artificial intelligence and content delivery during charging" was invented by Christopher E. Yang (Frisco, Texas), Geoffrey David Gaither (Ann Arbor, Mich.), James G. Swartz (Prosper, Texas), James D. Wilder (Dallas) and Frederick W. Mau (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining an expected charging duration of an electric vehicle (EV) at a charging point, determining content preferences of an occupant associated with the EV, wherein the content p...