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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Toyota

58 pending office actions • 7 clients

Portfolio Summary

58
Total Pending OAs
18
Final Rejections
40
Non-Final OAs

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. 40
Toyota Research Institute, Inc. 13
The Regents of the University of Michigan 1
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. 1
Toyota Research Institute, Inc. 1
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha 1
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
18817949 Untitled Toyota Research Institute, Inc. LEMIEUX, JESSICA 3626 Final Rejection
18976524 Untitled Toyota Research Institute, Inc. LAKHANI, ANDREW C 3629 Non-Final OA
18976747 Untitled Toyota Research Institute, Inc. KONG, SZE-HON 3657 Non-Final OA
18903266 Untitled Toyota Research Institute, Inc. GRAY, RYAN M 2611 Non-Final OA
18795842 PORTABLE AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE CORROSION MONITORING SYSTEMS Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER 2858 Non-Final OA Aug 06, 2024
18793130 CONFIGURING A PORTABLE TRAFFIC MARKER TO BE A NODE IN A BLOCKCHAIN Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. HAILU, TESHOME 2434 Non-Final OA Aug 02, 2024
18785470 SIMPLIFIED BASE TRIM COVER FOR SEAT WITH REMOVABLE TRIM COVER Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. KIM, SHIN H 3636 Non-Final OA Jul 26, 2024
18745177 DETERMINING A WEIGHT SET TO PERSONALIZE A RULE THAT GOVERNS A MANNER OF A PERFORMANCE OF A CHANGE OF A MOVEMENT OF AN AUTOMATED VEHICLE The Regents of the University of Michigan WONG, YUEN H 3667 Non-Final OA Jun 17, 2024
18671409 MODIFYING PEDESTRIAN PERCEPTION OF A VEHICLE Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. ADEDIRAN, ABDUL-SAMAD A 2621 Final Rejection May 22, 2024
18671413 HEADREST WITH VIBRATION ISOLATION Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT 3636 Non-Final OA May 22, 2024
18648557 THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING ON PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. FREAL, JOHN BRENDAN 2847 Non-Final OA Apr 29, 2024
18640519 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CREATIVE SKETCHES USING MODELS GUIDED BY SKETCHES AND TEXT Toyota Research Institute, Inc. LE, MICHAEL 2614 Final Rejection Apr 19, 2024
18634003 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTING AN ENVIRONMENT AND TRAVEL PLANS FOR A VEHICLE OCCUPANT USING MODELS Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. REDA, MATTHEW J 3665 Non-Final OA Apr 12, 2024
18631134 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING PASSENGER RESTRAINT DEVICE USAGE Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. HALLORAN, THOMAS JAMES 3648 Non-Final OA Apr 10, 2024
18613323 CONTROLLING AN ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. DAVIS, JERROD I 3656 Final Rejection Mar 22, 2024
18613419 BEHAVIOR-CONDITIONED MESSAGE STYLIZATION Toyota Research Institute, Inc. ABD EL LATIF, HOSSAM M 3664 Final Rejection Mar 22, 2024
18612226 TRAINING AN OPERATOR OF A VEHICLE TO PERFORM A MANEUVER OF THE VEHICLE Toyota Research Institute, Inc. ZAMAN, SADARUZ 3715 Non-Final OA Mar 21, 2024
18612396 BROADBAND NOISE AND VIBRATION CANCELING META-BARRIERS FOR 2D THIN WALL STRUCTURES Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. PHILLIPS, FORREST M 2837 Non-Final OA Mar 21, 2024
18606089 VEHICLE STEP WITH AN INTEGRATED POP-UP HANDLE Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL 3613 Non-Final OA Mar 15, 2024
18605396 POSITIONING AND TRACKING USING LOW-EARTH ORBIT (LEO) SATELLITES Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. DWYER, MATTHEW JAMES 2649 Non-Final OA Mar 14, 2024
18595886 SHOCK ABSORBER ATTACHMENT JIG Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. NEJAD, MAHDI H 3723 Non-Final OA Mar 05, 2024
18594366 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESTRAINING A PASSENGER VIA A VARIABLE-STIFFNESS BLANKET Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. SANDERSON, JOSEPH W 3619 Non-Final OA Mar 04, 2024
18590149 DETERMINATION OF A SAFETY ISSUE RELATING TO A VEHICLE OCCUPANT Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY 2663 Non-Final OA Feb 28, 2024
18434969 LOCKING MECHANISM FOR A FASTENER RECEPTACLE ASSEMBLY Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. HOROWITZ, NOAH NMN 3675 Final Rejection Feb 07, 2024
18406545 SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS FOR SCALE ESTIMATION WITH MONOCULAR DEPTH ESTIMATION Toyota Research Institute, Inc. SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK 2665 Final Rejection Jan 08, 2024
18532321 SOUND DEVICE THAT MITIGATES NOISE FROM AIRFLOW WITH RESONANCE Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B 2837 Non-Final OA Dec 07, 2023
18524117 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO HEARING-IMPAIRED PEDESTRIANS Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. LAU, HOI CHING 2689 Non-Final OA Nov 30, 2023
18509903 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCOURAGING PEDESTRIAN GROUP MOVEMENT Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. LEITE, PAULO ROBERTO GONZ 3663 Final Rejection Nov 15, 2023
18498380 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUAL CONTENT GENERATION AND ITERATION Toyota Research Institute, Inc. YOUNG, CAMERON KENNETH 2655 Final Rejection Oct 31, 2023
18483753 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING A FIRST VEHICLE USING A SECOND VEHICLE Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. LE, TIEN MINH 3656 Non-Final OA Oct 10, 2023
18478013 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING A SAFE PARKING LOCATION FOR PARKING A VEHICLE Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK 3665 Non-Final OA Sep 29, 2023
18472665 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING EGO VEHICLE DRIVER-BASED GUIDANCE Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. WEISFELD, MATTHIAS S 3661 Non-Final OA Sep 22, 2023
18470560 ANGLE INDEPENDENT ACOUSTIC STRUCTURES FOR BROADBAND SOUND ABSORPTION AND SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN 2837 Final Rejection Sep 20, 2023
18468029 SHAPE MEMORY MATERIAL MEMBER ANCHOR Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY 3618 Final Rejection Sep 15, 2023
18452376 ACTUATOR PUSH STRUCTURE WITH MASSAGING ELEMENTS Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA 3786 Non-Final OA Aug 18, 2023
18452343 ACTUATOR WITH ROTATABLE PUSH STRUCTURE Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS 3746 Final Rejection Aug 18, 2023
18234920 METAL FOAM POROUS TRANSPORT LAYERS AND POLYMER-ELECTROLYTE-MEMBRANE WATER ELECTROLYZERS WITH POROUS TRANSPORT LAYERS Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. FORRY, COLTON BUSA 1711 Non-Final OA Aug 17, 2023
18365719 BATTERY STATE-OF-HEALTH PREDICTION Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. GOLAN, MATTHEW BRYCE 2123 Non-Final OA Aug 04, 2023
18227114 ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR THE OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION IN ACID CONDITIONS Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. CALDERON, DAVID ANDREW 1742 Non-Final OA Jul 27, 2023
18354313 SYSTEM FOR MECHANICALLY SWAPPING A BATTERY PACK Toyota Research Institute, Inc. ALEXANDER, EMMA LYNNE 2857 Non-Final OA Jul 18, 2023
18216782 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DESIGNING DOPED CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS Toyota Research Institute, Inc. STANDKE, ADAM C 2129 Non-Final OA Jun 30, 2023
18200644 WEATHER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. LEE, CHEE-CHONG 3752 Non-Final OA May 23, 2023
18309333 COATING FOR ELECTRODES USED IN ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY SENSORS Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN 3794 Non-Final OA Apr 28, 2023
18131175 LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC OPTICAL BEAM POWER Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H 3642 Non-Final OA Apr 05, 2023
18130718 HIGHLY INTEGRATED POWER ELECTRONICS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. TUGBANG, ANTHONY D 2896 Non-Final OA Apr 04, 2023
18192088 ACOUSTIC ENERGY HARVESTING USING RESONATORS Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR 2831 Non-Final OA Mar 29, 2023
18112767 LIGHT-BASED SOUND GENERATION AND SOUND HARVESTING SYSTEM Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. GORDON, BRYAN P 2837 Non-Final OA Feb 22, 2023
18111761 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER 3657 Non-Final OA Feb 20, 2023
18107757 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZED MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED MODEL SIMPLIFICATION FOR CONNECTED VEHICLES Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. MEYER, JACQUELINE CHRISTINE 2144 Non-Final OA Feb 09, 2023
18087425 ADAPTIVE BATCHING FOR OPTIMIZING EXECUTION OF MACHINE LEARNING TASKS Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. LI, HELEN 3665 Final Rejection Dec 22, 2022
18073731 PtNiN FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYSTS AND FUEL CELLS WITH PtNiN ELECTRODE CATALYSTS Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 1729 Non-Final OA Dec 02, 2022
17948396 APPARATUS FOR CONDITIONING AN EDGE OF A SUBSTRATE USING A WATER JET Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. AYALA, FERNANDO A 3724 Final Rejection Sep 20, 2022
17946210 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A TRAILER VEHICLE Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN 3662 Final Rejection Sep 16, 2022
17888810 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOWNSAMPLING DATA Toyota Research Institute, Inc. MORRIS, JOSEPH PATRICK 2188 Final Rejection Aug 16, 2022
17874936 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING AN ANTENNA ARRAY TO SUPPRESS SIDE-LOBE POWER Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. JEONG, HEIN 2186 Non-Final OA Jul 27, 2022
17707053 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATERIALS DISCOVERY USING DUALITY TRANSFORMS AND PREDICTIVE CONVEX HULLS Toyota Research Institute, Inc. CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU 2144 Final Rejection Mar 29, 2022
17582687 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES Toyota Research Institute, Inc. BORISSOV, IGOR N 3685 Final Rejection Jan 24, 2022
16424849 NOVEL SOFT MATERIALS BASED ON BORON COMPOUNDS Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. BUCHANAN, JACOB 1725 Non-Final OA May 29, 2019

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