ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,130, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Dispatch service to supply energy source to parked user vehicle at specified location" was invented by Yu Nagata (Chofu, Japan), Shun Hashimoto (Kiyosu, Japan), Kota Yamazaki (Kasugai, Japan), Akane Masaki (Nisshin, Japan), Wataru Eto (Nagoya, Japan) and Makoto Akahane (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal program, which is configured to request a service to dispatch a service staff or a service vehicle to a location in which a user vehicle is parked and supply an energy source to the user vehicle, is configured to cause a computer to e...