ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,101, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information communication device of vehicle, information management server, and information communication system" was invented by Tadashi Ohkubo (Toyota, Japan), Shuhei Yamaguchi (Nisshin, Japan) and Koichi Kase (Kodaira, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To acquire information on the refueling position when a vehicle is refueled. A SO2 sensor detects the concentration of sulfur dioxide in the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine after refueling. Region-by-region concentration information that associates refueling position information with inf...