ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,467, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).
"Managing transport data expiration" was invented by Edward Allen Cain Jr. (Plano, Texas) and Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of utilizing data, by a transport, for a period of time according to a license file, removing a first type of the data, by the transport, while the transport is operating, removing a second type of the data, by the transport when the transport ceases operating, and retaining a third type of data in memory after the transport ceases operating."
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