ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,750, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information collection system and information collection method" was invented by Rui Hamano (Tokyo), Keisuke Umehara (Tokyo) and Daiki Nogami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information collection system includes: a vehicle registration information acquisition unit configured to access a vehicle registration DB, and acquire vehicle registration information including an identification code and a vehicle model of the vehicles; a communication control unit configured to communicate with the vehicles; a required number setting unit configured to set a number ...