ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,746, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Device and method for managing cardon dioxide emissions for products" was invented by Atsushi Komada (Nagakute, Japan), Mitsuru Ogasawara (Gamagori, Japan), Masahiko Ishii (Okazaki, Japan), Hidetaka Asano (Nissin, Japan), Tomokazu Ishii (Okazaki, Japan), Koji Hetsugi (Toyota, Japan), Kosuke Yonekawa (Nissin, Japan) and Yoshikazu Jikuhara (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management device is configured to manage CO2 emission amounts emitted from production of products on a production line. The management device includes a storage device confi...