US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor, Renault on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle allocation control device, vehicle allocation control system, and vehicle allocation control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,983, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan) and Renault SAS (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Vehicle allocation control device, vehicle allocation control system, and vehicle allocation control method" was invented by Hidenori Boutani (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayasu Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoki Hirabayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle allocation control device, when a forgotten item in the vehicle is detected after setting a first travel route including a drop-off place, is configured to: calculate a first time at which the vehicle arrives at the drop-off place by trav...