ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,770, issued on July 22, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan) and Renault SAS (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Vehicle allocation support device, vehicle allocation support method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle allocation support program" was invented by Masayasu Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Youhei Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan) and Natsu Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle allocation support device: acquires baggage information about baggage carried in a vehicle; acquires user information that includes at least user position information indicating a curre...