US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 17 for "Information processing device, information processing device-equipped vehicle, information processing method, and recording medium recorded with program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,811, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing device-equipped vehicle, information processing method, and recording medium recorded with program" was invented by Shimpei Asai (Okazaki, Japan), Jumpei Fuke (Toyota, Japan), Kuniharu Tsuzuki (Handa, Japan), Shota Honda (Miyoshi, Japan), Toru Yoshihara (Miyoshi, Japan), Naoyuki Takada (Toyota, Japan) and Nobuyoshi Nagai (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device including a reception section 130 configured to receive user operation for disabling a vehicle control fu...