US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 16 for "Information processing device for restricting operation of application by operator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,691, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device for restricting operation of application by operator" was invented by Hideki Kobayashi (Miyoshi, Japan), Yasuhiro Miura (Owariasahi, Japan), Kuka Ishiyama (Musashino, Japan), Koji Aikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Tadahiro Nishikawa (Nisshin, Japan), Yuji Ota (Kariya, Japan), Motoki Maekawa (Nagakute, Japan) and Yasuhiro Ishiguro (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The mobile device is provided with an operation restriction unit, and the operation restriction unit determines which seat of the vehicle is being operated from the...