ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,494, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to WOVEN BY TOYOTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for generating heat maps" was invented by Emily Lerner (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating a heat map corresponding to a difficult road topography includes one or more processors, network interface hardware, and one or more memory modules. When the machine-readable instructions are executed by the one or more processors, the system is caused to: receive vehicle swarm data related to at least the vehicle performance and the vehicle occupant, wherein at least a portion of the vehicle swarm data is generated by...