US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor North America on Dec. 9 for "Methods, systems, and vehicles for determining a wait time at a point of interest" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,834, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Methods, systems, and vehicles for determining a wait time at a point of interest" was invented by Jake Morrow (Carrollton, Texas) and Eduard VanderSmitte (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a wait time at a point of interest includes obtaining a current occupancy signal of a parking establishment associated with one or more points of interest, obtaining a historic occupancy signal of the parking establishment, determining, with one or more processors, a predicted wait time for the one or more points of interest ...