ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,658, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Trash collection system and trash collection method" was invented by Nobuhisa Otsuki (Toyota, Japan), Haeyeon Lee (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kunihiro Iwamoto (Nagakute, Japan) and Kota Oishi (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management server executes selection processing to select a mobile in charge of a replacement indicating at least one of a collection of a trash box installed in a facility and a replenishment of a trash box to a facility. The facility includes a first facility and a second facility. In the selection processing, when a request...