US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor North America on March 18 for "Vehicle sanitizing systems and methods for using the same" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,486, issued on March 18, was assigned to Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Vehicle sanitizing systems and methods for using the same" was invented by Daniel C. Bracken (Frisco, Texas), Joshua Batie (Frisco, Texas), Michael D. Dorazio (Santa Monica, Calif.), Randy Kaushek (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), James H. Kikuma (Plano, Texas), Judy K. Chen (Dallas), Juan Acosta (The Colony, Texas) and Sergei I. Gage (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a vehicle body defining a vehicle interior and a vehicle exterior, one or more detection devices including at least one of a microphone and a camera...