ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,210, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program capable of correcting operation plan of vehicle" was invented by Kenji Kondo (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus, comprises a controller configured to execute: issuing a first command to a first vehicle that is an autonomous driving vehicle, based on a predetermined operation plan that includes an operation zone for providing a predetermined service, and a non-operation zone for executing one or more preparation tasks; correcting an...