US Patent Issued to Woven by Toyota on Sept. 1 for "Data collecting device, method, computer program, and data collecting system for collecting data" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,892, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Woven by Toyota Inc. (Chuo-ku Tokyo, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collecting device includes a processor configured to store an image representing an area around a vehicle and generated by a camera mounted on the vehicle during travel of the vehicle 2 in a memory, generate probe data representing a predetermined feature detected from the image in the area around the vehicle, store the generated probe data in the memory, s...