ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,647, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Adjustment of environment of transports" was invented by Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri (McKinney, Texas), Felipe G. Salles (Garland, Texas), Christopher J. Risberg (Flower Mound, Texas) and Joshua C. Batie (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of monitoring, by a transport, data related to behavior of an occupant of the transport, determining, by the transport, a mode of the occupant based on the data, and adjusting, by the transport, an environment of the transport based on the mode of the occupant."...