# Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America has 2 landmark patents explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [Toyota's Patent on Detecting Road Hazards with LIDAR](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/12292511/method-for-road-debris-detection-using-low-cost-lidar) — granted 2025
  Toyota's 2025 patent describes a car system using LIDAR to spot road problems by comparing how light bounces off the road to a known 'good' road signal.
- [LiDAR System for Seeing Through Shiny Objects](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/11041957/systems-and-methods-for-mitigating-effects-of-high-reflectivity-objects-in-lidar) — granted 2021
  Toyota's patent on a LiDAR system that can ignore blinding reflections from shiny surfaces to better see what's around a vehicle.

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_Source: PatentBrief — https://patentbrief.org. Plain-English explanations of US patents._