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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2019
Applicant:

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

John Charles Rafferty, Dexter, MI (US);

Lou M. Pope, Ypsilanti, MI (US);

Clinton J. Williams, Saline, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/00 (2006.01); B60H 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/008 (2013.01); B60H 1/00778 (2013.01); B60H 1/00807 (2013.01); B60H 1/00392 (2013.01); B60H 1/00742 (2013.01); B60L 2240/34 (2013.01); B60L 2260/56 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes a sensor for sensing an outdoor environment weather condition of an outdoor environment, a processor, and a memory module communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory module including one or more processor-readable instructions that when executed, cause the processor to determine an expected departure time, determine the outdoor environment weather condition from data received from the sensor, and send a request for user input to a remote device, the request including a user input selector to initiate at least one climate control system based on one or more of the expected departure time and the outdoor environment weather condition.


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