ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,369, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"System and program product for creating vehicle dispatch plan" was invented by Yutaro Ito (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle dispatch plan creating system, a calculator calculates, for each plan candidate, a value of an evaluation index for each vehicle assuming that the corresponding vehicle travels in accordance with the corresponding plan candidate. The evaluation index for each vehicle includes at least one of: (i) an energy consumption of the corresponding vehicle; (ii) a quantity of carbon dioxide emissions from the corresponding vehic...