ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,808, issued on Aug. 4, 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 receives first data related to travel from a vehicle. The information processing device acquires a predetermined condition that is set by the user and indicates a range of the first data that is permitted to be provided to a third party or a range of the first data that is not permitted to be provided to a ...