ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,285, issued on June 23, 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: "The control unit of the information processing device acquires first information related to one or more first facilities located in the vicinity of the scheduled traveling route of the vehicle. The control unit identifies, based on the first information, a second facility, which is a facility located in the traveling direction of the vehicle, among the first facilities. The control unit ide...