ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,606, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing system" was invented by Masaru Takada (Toyota, Japan), Kazumi Aono (Tokyo), Shingo Okeda (Nagoya, Japan), Toru Furusawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Xiao Shao (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system including a plurality of moving objects and an information processing device, wherein the plurality of moving objects include a communication device capable of communication using terahertz waves, and the information processing device includes a control unit configured to transmit a sensing request to a fi...