US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Information processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,400, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device" was invented by Kazuya Okada (Arakawa-ku, Japan), Hiroshi Abe (Kasukabe, Japan), Naoya Kaneko (Toyota, Japan), Toru Furusawa (Yokohama, Japan), Takayuki Sakai (Setagaya-ku, Japan) and Koji Takeoka (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit configured to perform obtaining a quality map regarding the quality of wireless communication for each planned travel route and area of the first vehicle, and transmitting an alternative route that does not pass through the first area to the first vehicle in response to t...