ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,177, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Control method and control device" was invented by Hiroshi Yahata (Osaka fu, Japan), Tomoyuki Hirota (Hyogo ken, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara ken, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka fu, Japan) and Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka fu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, a control method of a vehicle including a communication circuit capable of communicating with a computer via a network includes: acquiring, from the computer via the communication circuit, first reservation information including first boarding area in...