US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on April 29 for "Managing transport occupants during transport events" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,218, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Managing transport occupants during transport events" was invented by Emily S. Lerner (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Nutonya L Parker (Dallas), Randall M. Harris (Dallas) and Anil Nagpal (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of identifying a target device has entered a transport and has initiated a transport event at a target location, applying permissions, associated with the target device, to the transport event, determining a transport event modification has occurred, when the transport has stopped movi...