US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on Sept. 16 for "Odometer fraud detection via data storage on components" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,304, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Odometer fraud detection via data storage on components" was invented by Mark R. Klausner (San Diego), Matthew R. Gaertner (Plano, Texas), Andrew S. Blomdal (Anna, Texas) and Stephen Paul McFarland Jr. (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of incrementing an epoch value related to a transport event, transmitting the incremented epoch value to at least one component on the transport, receiving an odometer reading comprising the epoch value and comparing the epoch value of the odometer reading and ...