US Patent Issued to Woven By Toyota on July 1 for "Systems and methods for avoidance of external odors in a vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,275, issued on July 1, was assigned to Woven By Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for avoidance of external odors in a 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: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving passenger compartment air quality in a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes, responsive to acquiring sensor data that includes at least air quality information about a surrounding environment of an ego vehicle, analyzing the sensor data to determine whether the air quality information satisfi...