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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2024
Toyota Motor North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Ram Kurapati, Southlake, TX (US);
Munish Goyal, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Muttu Vastrad, Frisco, TX (US);
Audrey Mito, The Colony, TX (US);
Smail Haddad, Plano, TX (US);
Doug S. Campbell, McKinney, TX (US);
Philip W. Ryan, Frisco, TX (US);
Ramesh Gangadharan, Suwanee, GA (US);
Mai Miller, Celina, TX (US);
Srinivas Prasad, Plano, TX (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US);
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
A system includes an application configured to, based on user inputs, generate a target vehicle specification, and a database including a collection of inventory specifications of vehicles in a vehicle inventory. The system also includes a spec encoder configured to: encode the target vehicle specification as a first code; encode the collection of inventory specifications as a collection of second codes; and map the target vehicle specification and inventory specifications into a multidimensional space. The multidimensional space includes one dimension for each specification category. A preference class vector includes a weight for each dimension. A matching engine, based on the preference class vector, defines a search neighborhood around the target specification in the multidimensional space; identifies inventory specifications that fall within the search neighborhood, computes match scores for the identified vehicles; and reports the match scores and corresponding vehicles.