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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2019
Toyota Motor North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Hazem Ahmed, Plano, TX (US);
David M. Goemer, Frisco, TX (US);
Walter Accessor, Little Elm, TX (US);
Andrew L. Wells, Denton, TX (US);
Ryan Wheeler, Denton, TX (US);
Anil R. Nair, Plano, TX (US);
Senthilkumar Gopal Kalaimani, Frisco, TX (US);
Neil Dutta, Addison, TX (US);
Michael C. Edwards, McKinney, TX (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for maintaining telematics data. The system includes a standard vehicle. The standard vehicle includes one or more sensors configured to detect telematics data, a memory configured to store a blockchain associated with the standard vehicle, an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to update the blockchain associated with the standard vehicle with the detected telematics data, and a transceiver configured to communicate the blockchain to one or more other vehicles. The system also includes a collection vehicle. The collection vehicle includes a transceiver configured to receive the blockchain from the standard vehicle, and communicate the blockchain from the standard vehicle to a network to update a distributed record of the blockchain associated with the standard vehicle.