ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,381, issued on May 26, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and vehicle" was invented by Keiko Yamazaki (Saitama, Japan), Atsushi Kamachi (Saitama, Japan) and Tatsuro Haruki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes an acquisition unit which acquires use history information indicating a use history of the vehicle for a plurality of items, a derivation unit which derives an output decrease amount for each of the items based on the use history information and output decrease characteristic information, a factor-specific output decrease amount estimati...