US Patent Issued to Woven By Toyota on Feb. 3 for "Causing a vibration within a vehicle to change a degree of somnolence of an occupant of the vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,864, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Woven By Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).

"Causing a vibration within a vehicle to change a degree of somnolence of an occupant of the vehicle" was invented by Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for causing a vibration within a vehicle to change a degree of somnolence of an occupant of the vehicle can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store an occupant age discrimination and a controller module. The occupant age discrimination can include instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor t...