ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,543, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program" was invented by Shunsuke Tanimori (Nagoya, Japan), Ryota Nakabayashi (Toyota, Japan), Osamu Izumida (Nagoya, Japan), Takeshi Kanou (Seto, Japan), Naoki Yamada (Toyota, Japan), Kazuyuki Inoue (Nagoya, Japan), Shin Sakurada (Toyota-shi, Japan) and Hiromitsu Fujii (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed ve...