ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,911, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information processing device" was invented by Osami Hashimoto (Mishima, Japan), Hiroki Tashima (Fujisawa, Japan), Toshihiko Inoue (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuma Toya (Anjyo, 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: "A information processing device includes: a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire a satellite image of a scheduled travel path, among satellite images captured by an artificial satellite; detect, from the acquired satellite image, an obst...