ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,129, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method for securing providing vehicle driver information" was invented by Ryota Osumi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus to be mounted on a first vehicle, the information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to: determine whether there is a record of consent, expressed in the past, from a driver of the first vehicle for acquisition, by an external apparatus, of first data acquired by the first vehicle during traveling, and issue an in...