ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,591, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information providing device and information providing method" was invented by Yoshihiro Oe (Nagoya, Japan), Wataru Minoura (Nagoya, Japan), Masatoshi Hayashi (Nisshin, Japan), Yutaro Imamura (Nagoya, Japan), Fumihiro Nasu (Nagoya, Japan), Yuki Tatsumoto (Seto, Japan) and Takehiko Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information providing device and an information providing method are provided. Processing circuitry receives, from a first vehicle, a piece of video data related to the moment the first veh...