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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2021
Toyota Motor North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Daniel C. Bracken, Frisco, TX (US);
Joshua Batie, Frisco, TX (US);
Michael D. Dorazio, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Randy Kaushek, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
James H. Kikuma, Plano, TX (US);
Judy K. Chen, Dallas, TX (US);
Juan Acosta, The Colony, TX (US);
Sergei I. Gage, Dallas, TX (US);
Toyota Motor North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
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.