ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,985, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device" was invented by Shintaro Matsutani (Kariya, Japan), Ryuichi Danno (Kasugai, Japan), Atsushi Ikegaya (Aisai, Japan), Masashi Nomoto (Tokyo) and Oral Kaplan (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: an information processing device that collects data from a plurality of vehicles, wherein the information processing device acquires a predetermined condition for extracting, from a plurality of vehicles, a vehicle possessing first data, which i...