ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,093, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Osami Hashimoto (Mishima, Japan), Hiroki Tashima (Fujisawa, Japan), Toshihiko Inoue (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuma Toya (Anjo, Japan), Takashi Tazoe (Nagoya, Japan), Ryota Bingo (Nisshin, Japan) and Kosuke Sakakibara (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing device acquires a satellite image captured by an artificial satellite in a range from a current position of the vehicle to a destination, acquires preference information regarding a pr...