ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,953, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Yuka Takiguchi (Tokyo), Yuko Mineta (Chofu, Japan), Masaaki Tomiya (Urayasu, Japan) and Misa Okamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an information processing device, a control unit acquires a scheduled distribution end time of a content to be distributed to a passenger of a vehicle, determines a first route expected to allow the vehicle to arrive at a destination within a predetermined period including the scheduled distribution end time, acquires a passage time at ...