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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,404, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device" was invented by Yu Nagata (Chofu, Japan), Takehira Ota (Inazawa, Japan) and Daisuke Tanizaki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit of the information processing device acquires a category to which a destination facility, namely a destination of a user, belongs. Further, the control unit of the information processing device acquires attributes of one or a plurality of facilities belonging to a category related to a category to which the destination facility belongs. The control unit of the information pro...