US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 4 for "Vehicle occupant behavior monitoring application" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,194, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle occupant behavior monitoring application" 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 monitoring, via a vehicle, a behavior of an occupant of the vehicle, responsive to the behavior being above a threshold, generating via an application of the vehicle, a first suggested action intended for the occupant b...