ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,303, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO TEN Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and communication system" was invented by Noriaki Ito (Toyota, Japan), Hiroki Kawasaki (Toyota, Japan), Hiroto Nakagawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Satoru Ikeda (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system capable of rapidly communicating information. In the present disclosure, an information processing apparatus including a first communication module configured to use a cellular communication network and a second communication module configured to use a wirele...