US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, Nomura Research Institute on July 14 for "Navigation system and navigation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,825, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Navigation system and navigation 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 (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a navigation system, a data center is connected to a plurality of vehicles via a communication network. The data center receives video data and stores the received video data in a storage device, t...