US Patent Issued to WOVEN BY TOYOTA on May 26 for "Data collection instruction device, method, and computer program for giving instructions to collect data" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,304, issued on May 26, was assigned to WOVEN BY TOYOTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Data collection instruction device, method, and computer program for giving instructions to collect data" was invented by Masahiro Tanaka (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Tatsuyoshi Kitamura (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collection instruction device includes a memory configured to store travel history of each of a plurality of vehicles; and a processor configured to select one or more vehicles satisfying a predetermined condition related to travel in an update target region of map information from among the plurality of vehicles, based on the travel h...