ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,101, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and in-vehicle apparatus" was invented by Kei Kosaka (Meguro-ku, Japan), Hironori Aokage (Nagoya, Japan), Tatsuya Maemura (Nisshin, Japan) and Ryosuke Matsuoka (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to execute a startup process of one or multiple in-vehicle devices used to send captured data when a driving system of a first vehicle is not up, a view request is received from a user, and a request number is smaller th...