ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,742, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle" was invented by Tsukasa Mikuni (Tokyo), Takuya Homma (Tokyo), Junichi Motoyama (Tokyo), Ryota Nakamura (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Hayakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a storage, an obtainer, an extractor, a comparator, and a notification processor. The storage is configured to store first vehicle data in association with first image data. The obtainer is configured to acquire second vehicle data and second image data. The extractor is configured to extract, from the first vehicle data and the first image data stored in the storage, the first ...