ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,216, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device" was invented by Masataka Okuda (Toyota, Japan), Masatoshi Kakutani (Miyoshi, Japan), Kaoru Yoshida (Nisshin, Japan), Kanade Kuriyama (Toyota, Japan) and Toshiki Shinohara (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device for remotely controlling a vehicle, the information processing device comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of requests related to control of a target vehicle from a plurality of applications; a processing unit that arbitrates the plurality of requests acquired ...