US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 20 for "Information distribution device and navigation system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,963, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information distribution device and navigation system" was invented by Makoto Matsushita (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information distribution device includes a communication unit that communicates with a navigation device that notifies a user of traffic congestion information, probe data obtained from one or more probe vehicles that move on a road including at least two lanes having a common traveling direction, and store data related to a store facing a specific lane that is one of the at least two lanes, and a control unit that, ...