US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor North America on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for determining a sanitization status of an environment" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,694, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for determining a sanitization status of an environment" was invented by Roger A. Kyle (Frisco, Texas), Christopher Risberg (Flower Mound, Texas), Nikhil Rajendra (Plano, Texas), Timothy Wang (Frisco, Texas), Jordan Frank (Farmers Branch, Texas), Jiju Thomas (Allen, Texas), David M. Goemer (Frisco, Texas), Evan Vijithakumara (Frisco, Texas), Imad Zahid (Carrollton, Texas), Lizbeth Jurado (El Paso, Texas), Lou Pope (Flower Mound, Texas) and Yuho Kozu (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a sanitization...