US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, Nomura Research Institute on March 17 for "Garbage collection time notification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,521, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Garbage collection time notification 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: "A vehicle transmits images in which garbage collection sites appear to a server. The server performs: identifying, among the plurality of images acquired from the vehicle, a yet-to-be-visited collection site image in which a yet-to-be-visited collection site appears ...