ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,919, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Support server, disaster support system, and storage medium" was invented by Yusuke Hoki (Mishima, Japan), Koseki Sugiyama (Sunto-gun, Japan), Kumiko Katsumata (Susono, Japan), Rie Yayabe (Sunto-gun, Japan), Shin Sakurada (Toyota, Japan) and Tomio Yamanaka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support server includes a controlling portion configured to execute the followings: acquiring respective pieces of vehicle information on a plurality of vehicles present in a power outage area; specifying a power supply vehicle by which power supply is perfo...