US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "System and method for legitimate co-worker remote encounter interactions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,255, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"System and method for legitimate co-worker remote encounter interactions" was invented by David A. Shamma (San Francisco), Candice Hogan (Foster City, Calif.), Shabnam Hakimi (San Francisco) and Yue Weng (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for legitimate remote co-worker encounters is described. The method includes scheduling a virtual walkabout of a user in a remote environment. The method also includes identifying a remote co-worker in the remote environment to facilitate a...