ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,443, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device for managing operation of an on-demand bus, information processing method for managing operation of an on-demand bus, and information processing system for managing operation of an on-demand bus" was invented by Toshiki Kashiwakura (Nagakute, Japan), Takahiro Aoki (Nagoya, Japan), Tsuyoshi Okada (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiromitsu Fujii (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device of the present disclosure includes a control unit configured to control a plurality of output devices provided in an oper...