ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,068, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).
"Connected vehicle services privacy and protection" was invented by Ryan N. Wilson (Melissa, Texas) and Edward Allen Cain Jr. (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request into a transport network comprising at least one transport for a proposed use of personal data associated with the at least one transport prior to the at least one transport entering an area; receiving into the transport network a deletion time of the personal data, prior to the at least one transport entering the ar...