ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,425, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium storing a program" was invented by Osami Hashimoto (Mishima, Japan), Hiroki Tashima (Fujisawa, Japan), Toshihiko Inoue (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuma Toya (Anjo, Japan), Takashi Tazoe (Nagoya, Japan), Ryota Bingo (Nisshin, Japan) and Kosuke Sakakibara (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes: a satellite image acquisition section that is configured to acquire a satellite image captured by a...