US Patent Issued to WOVEN BY TOYOTA on July 14 for "Data collecting device, method, computer program, and data collecting system for collecting data" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,650, issued on July 14, was assigned to WOVEN BY TOYOTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Data collecting device, method, computer program, and data collecting system for collecting data" was invented by Masahiro Tanaka (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collecting device includes a processor configured to detect a predetermined feature in an area around a vehicle during travel of the vehicle from an image representing the area around the vehicle generated by a camera mounted on the vehicle, generate probe data, based on the detected feature, store the generated probe data in a memory, and transmit, upon or after entry of the vehicl...