ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,432, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and Renault SAS (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).
"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Mitsunori Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a communication unit and a controller. The communication unit performs data communication with another vehicle present in a periphery of a host vehicle. The controller controls the data communication performed by the communication unit. The communication unit has a normal mode, and a directivity mode in which directivity o...