US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on July 14 for "Alighting point determination method and alighting point determination device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,419, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Alighting point determination method and alighting point determination device" was invented by Shuyang Jia (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoki Kojo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alighting point determination method is used in a vehicle allocation system configured to move a vehicle to a predetermined point in response to a request from a user. The vehicle allocation system includes a processor. The processor operates to: set a predetermined range including a point associated with a first user; specify a second user who is expected to alight...