Patents Assigned to Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
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Patent number: 11975626Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of providing to a charging station a distance desired to be driven by a transport and determining, by the charging station, an amount of energy to retrieve from the transport such that a residual amount of energy in the transport is equivalent to the distance desired to be driven.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Norman Lu
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Patent number: 11978123Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a transport, a potential damage event, recording, by the transport, a first media file via at least one sensor on the transport, accessing, by the transport, a second media file on at least one other transport within a predefined distance of the transport, analyzing, by the transport, the first media file and the second media file to identify portions that correlate to the potential damage event, and determining an actual damage event has occurred based on the analysis.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
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Patent number: 11970142Abstract: A system for dislodging debris from one or more surfaces includes an air inlet, an air outlet fluidly coupled with the air inlet, an air jet forming a trainable air stream between the air inlet and the air outlet, and a vibration device comprising a vibration controller, and one or more vibrators. The vibration device creates vibrations such that debris on the one or more surfaces is dislodged such that debris is captured in the trainable air stream, and the air stream carries the dislodged debris to the air outlet.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: David M. Goemer, Evan Vijithakumara, Imad Zahid, Lizbeth Jurado, Lou Pope, Yuho Kozu
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Publication number: 20240135006Abstract: An example operation includes associating a device of a first user with a first profile key; encrypting data to be stored on a vehicle associated with the first user, by the device, with the first profile key; storing the encrypted data on the vehicle; and restricting access to other data stored on the vehicle, based on the first profile key.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Stephen Paul McFarland, JR., Mark R. Klausner
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Publication number: 20240134629Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving an authorization code for a software update by a transport component, executing the software update on the transport component, responsive to a successful execution of the software update, generating a validation code by the transport component, and running the software update on other transport components based on the validation code.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, JR.
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Publication number: 20240129966Abstract: An example operation includes starting, by a vehicle, a timer when a pairing request is initiated; receiving, by the vehicle, a first response to the pairing request from a first device and a second response to the pairing request from a second device; recording the timer when each of the first response and the second response are received; determining a first connection time, from the recorded timer, for the first device, and determining a second connection time, from the recorded timer, for the second device; and connecting, by the vehicle, to a device having a fastest connection time among the first device and the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satyajit P. Patne, Edward Allen Cain, JR., Gabriel E. Lawrence, Joshua R. Davis, Mark R. Klausner, Nathan Humpal
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Patent number: 11958487Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of traveling, by a first transport, in a first lane, determining, by the first transport, that a speed of a second transport is greater than a speed of the first transport when the second transport is behind the first transport, determining, by the first transport, that no other transports are ahead of the first transport by a first distance in the first lane and beside the first transport by a second distance in a second lane, maneuvering, by the first transport, to the second lane allowing the second transport to pass the first transport in the first lane, and maneuvering, by the first transport, to the first lane when there are no other transports traveling in the first lane at a third distance behind the first transport and at or near the speed of the second transport.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Joshua V. Marasigan, Robert D. Slater, Felipe G. Salles, Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri
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Patent number: 11961401Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting a potential event via sensors on a transport, sending data related to the potential event to other transports within a predefined distance, storing the data at the transports and a server, and performing a transport operation response on the transports.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
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Publication number: 20240116370Abstract: To encourage users to improve their carbon footprint, a transport may be provided with an enhanced operating manner in response to external events that lower the carbon footprint of one or more occupants of the transport. Events, such as lowering the energy consumption of a person's home dwelling, may be communicated to the transport and trigger an enhanced mode in the transport, such as an enhanced driving mode (e.g. sport mode) or an enhanced charging mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Trent B. Bennett
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Patent number: 11954952Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by an accident processing node, an accident report from a transport, determining, by an accident processing node, a time and location parameters of the accident based on the report, querying, by an accident processing node, transport profiles on a storage based on the time and location parameters, and responsive to the transport profiles containing data corresponding to the time and location parameters, sending a request to access the transport profiles.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
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Publication number: 20240109449Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a plurality of vehicles and a first charge level of the vehicles utilizing a first charging location, determining a portion of the plurality of vehicles and a second charge level of the portion of the plurality of vehicles utilizing a second charging location, and determining a new charging location based on the plurality of vehicles, the first charge level, the portion of the plurality of vehicles, and the second charge level.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
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Publication number: 20240111517Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a software update at a transport of a subset of transports, validating the software update based on one or more of: a period of time when the software update is in use, and a number of utilizations of the software update by the subset of the transports, propagating the software update based on the validating, to a further subset of transports, wherein the further subset of the transports is larger than the subset of the transports.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo
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Patent number: 11945447Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of operating, by a transport, within a boundary and determining, by the transport, that the operating of the transport within the boundary is desired to be exceeded. In response to a consensus based on one or more operations of the transport and one or more occupant characteristics of the transport, the method includes operating, by the transport, within the exceeded boundary.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
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Patent number: 11948460Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of parking a transport in an initial space, determining an average time of an event attended by at least one occupant associated with the transport, moving the transport to at least one other space when an elapsed time of the event is less than the average time and when the at least one other space is available and closer to an event location than the initial space, and moving the transport to a final space when the event is completed, and the final space is a location of a device associated with the at least one occupant.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Daniel Warren Reaser
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Publication number: 20240104973Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of obtaining, by a moving vehicle, a first data including one or more of at least one first video and at least one first image of a moving transport, analyzing the first data, by the moving vehicle, to determine an initial issue, querying, by the moving vehicle, a server for a second data based on the analyzing, wherein the second data is one or more of at least one second video and at least one second image of the moving transport at a previous time, verifying, by the moving vehicle, an issue exists based on a delta above a threshold between the first data and the second data, and sending, by the moving vehicle, the verified issue to the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Joshua V. Marasigan, Robert D. Slater, Felipe G. Salles, Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri
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Publication number: 20240103843Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of downloading an update of a non-volatile electrically erasable memory storage of a vehicle, determining whether the memory storage is arranged in one of a block of bytes of memory and an individual byte of memory, selecting a programming protocol based on the memory storage arrangement and writing the memory storage based on the selected programming protocol.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Edward Allen Cain, JR., Satyajit P. Patne, Russell K. Barker, Ryan N. Wilson, Ismail Thanickel
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Publication number: 20240106663Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of obtaining, by a server, a certificate from an IoT device associated with a vehicle, determining, by the server, the certificate is not a revoked certificate, assigning, by the server, a temporary certificate to the IoT device, and validating, by the server, the temporary certificate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ismail Thanickel
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Patent number: D1021733Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.Inventors: Alberto Echazabal, Jakin C. Wilson
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Patent number: D1021737Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.Inventors: Alberto Echazabal, Jakin C. Wilson
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Patent number: D1022839Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.Inventors: Alberto Echazabal, Jakin C. Wilson