ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,842, issued on May 13, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi, Japan).
"Operation management system" was invented by Osamu Kawase (Aichi, Japan), Komei Yano (Aichi, Japan) and Yuki Kamiya (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an operation management system capable of timely giving a driver an opportunity to take a rest. One aspect of the present disclosure is an operation management system including a sensor acquiring biological information of a driver of each of management-target vehicles, and a server managing traveling plans, each including a destination and an arrival time, of the management-target vehicles...