ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,897, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to WOVEN BY TOYOTA U.S. INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Indexing sensor data about the physical world" was invented by Christopher Heiser (Campbell, Calif.), Anand Ramesh (Campbell, Calif.), Khalid Azam (Campbell, Calif.), Trilok Agarwal (Campbell, Calif.), Harry Chan-Maestas (Campbell, Calif.), Stefan Gloutnikov (Campbell, Calif.) and Kevin Phillips (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the use of sensor data in a mobile context by indexing the sensor data with derived content. In one embodiment, a method includes, r...