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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2022
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Baik Hoh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kentaro Oguchi, Mountain View, CA (US);
John F. Daly, Frisco, TX (US);
Akio Orii, Redwood City, CA (US);
Satoshi Nagashima, Long Island City, NY (US);
Adrian Lombard, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Paul Li, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kruti Vekaria, Arlington, VA (US);
Toyota Motor Engingeering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system includes a controller. The controller is configured to perform operations including obtaining data about an area related to a user, determining vacancy information about the area based on the data, determining at least one of an accessibility and a usability of the area, determining that the area is available for occupancy by one or more mobile units based on the vacancy information and at least one of the accessibility and the usability of the area, and updating a map including the area with an indication that the area is available for occupancy by one or more mobile units.