US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 21 for "Information processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,506, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device" was invented by Shigeki Matsumoto (Nagoya, Japan), Naoya Oka (Nagakute, Japan), Hidetaka Eguchi (Nagoya, Japan), Shigeru Ichikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Takeshi Yamada (Nagoya, Japan), Masayo Nagai (Nagoya, Japan) and Ryosuke Yamamoto (Konan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device acquires consent to collection of first data from a first vehicle from a first user via an in-vehicle device provided in the first vehicle at a first timing, and when re-consent from the first user is required to use of the...