ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,366, issued on March 18, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Information processing method, information processing system, information processing device, and information terminal" was invented by Kenta Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshiharu Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasunori Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method, an information processing system, an information processing device, and an information terminal of the present invention, accepts a destination for the vehicle, then searches for the travel route to the destination...