Toyota Motor North America, Inc.

Juan Acosta

Sergei I Gage

Joshua C Batie

James H Kikuma

Michael D Dorazio

Randy Kaushek

Daniel C Bracken

Judy K Chen

A vehicle system includes a vehicle body defining a vehicle interior and a vehicle exterior, one or more detection devices including at least one of a microphone and a camera structurally configured to receive data indicative of conditions within the vehicle interior or on the vehicle exterior, a sanitization device, and a controller communicatively coupled to the one or more detection devices and the sanitization device, the controller including a processor and a non-transitory computer readable and executable instruction set, which when executed, causes the processor to receives data from the one or more detection devices, determine a surface at least one of within the vehicle interior or on the vehicle exterior contacted by a user based at least in part on the data from the one or more detection devices, and direct the sanitization device to sanitize the surface.

Vehicle sanitizing systems and methods for using the same

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The Colony, TX, United States of America

Juan Acosta