ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,588, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Kaori Yamada (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit of an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire a speech including a request of a user. The control unit of the information processing apparatus is configured to specify one or multiple devices and at least two functions to be executed by the one or multiple devices, for realizing the request of the user based on the acquired speech of the user. The c...