ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,470, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Providing video evidence" was invented by Neil Dutta (Addison, Texas) 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 querying, by a transport, a plurality of transports within a range of an accident location, receiving, by the transport, agreements to access profiles of the plurality of transports on a storage, and responsive to the profiles containing video data associated with the accident location, linking the video data to a profile of the transport."

The patent was filed on Feb. 2,...