US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 8 for "Real-time modification from vehicle operations" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,193, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Real-time modification from vehicle operations" was invented by Roger Akira Kyle (Aubrey, Texas), Bryan Else Yamasaki (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Timothy Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of enabling a software portion of a vehicle, based on an operation of the vehicle and enabling another software portion of the vehicle, based on a further operation of the vehicle. The software portion and the other software portion alter the operation of the vehicl...