ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,174, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing method" was invented by Kazuya Nishimura (Anjo, Japan), Naoki Uenoyama (Kasugai, Japan), Keiko Nakano (Kawasaki, Japan), Yohei Nakanishi (Nagoya, Japan) and Takahiro Matsumura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method is a method executed by an information processing system including: a vehicle including an imaging unit and a communication unit; and a server device. The information processing method includes: requesting, by the server device, the vehicle positio...