Toyota Motor had 108 patents in ecommerce during Q4 2023. Toyota Motor Corp’s patents filed in Q4 2023 focus on autonomous package delivery, improving consumer safety through vehicle repair estimate reports, managing services based on user personality information, setting usage fees based on vehicle load state, and predicting vehicle value changes over time. GlobalData’s report on Toyota Motor gives a 360-degreee view of the company including its patenting strategy. Buy the report here.
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Toyota Motor grant share with ecommerce as a theme is 62% in Q4 2023. Grant share is based on the ratio of number of grants to total number of patents.
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Application: Vehicle, electronic signature issuing system, storage medium, and electronic signature issuing machine (Patent ID: US20230421384A1)
The patent filed by Toyota Motor Corp. describes a vehicle that autonomously delivers packages by communicating with an electronic signature issuing machine at the delivery destination to confirm the package's collation with the destination. The vehicle acquires an electronic signature upon successful collation and then proceeds to leave the package at the delivery destination. Additionally, the control unit of the vehicle can notify the user at the delivery destination of delivery information in advance, capture an image of the package's invoice, and acquire a shared password from the user's terminal device for issuing the electronic signature.
Furthermore, the patent includes claims for an electronic signature issuing system that involves the vehicle, the electronic signature issuing machine, and a terminal device at the delivery destination. It also covers a non-transitory storage medium storing a program that enables the vehicle to execute operations related to package delivery, such as notifying the user of delivery information, capturing invoice images, and acquiring passwords for electronic signature issuance. The electronic signature issuing machine described in the patent is equipped with a control unit that communicates with the vehicle, acquires passwords from the user's terminal device, and provides electronic signatures to the vehicle upon successful collation with the delivery destination.
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