ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,373, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing device, communication device, communication system, control circuit, storage medium, and information sharing method" was invented by Yasunori Kato (Tokyo), Yasushi Matsutaka (Tokyo), Toshinori Hori (Tokyo), Koshiro Ishihara (Tokyo), Takashi Asahara (Tokyo), Kenichi Nakura (Tokyo) and Shusaku Umeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device that is an edge computer connected to a base station communicatable with a vehicle in a service area includes: a request generation unit generating a first request including location information and ...