US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 9 for "Information processing device, information processing method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,436, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing method and program" was invented by Takashige Hori (Aisai, Japan) and Naoto Sasagawa (Nishio, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes: an accident/near miss detecting unit that detects a first vehicle of a plurality of vehicles based on vehicle information acquired by each of the vehicles and including position information and date-and-time information corresponding to time when the vehicle information is acquired by the vehicles, the first vehicle being involved i...