ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,897, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle advertisement system" 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: "Receiving first data regarding driving from the vehicle, a control unit is configured to execute generating and encrypting second data to be transmitted to the first server based on the first data, and transmitting the encrypted second data to the first server. and transmitting to the first server, every predetermined period, a key for de...