ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,281, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan) and MONET TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Tokyo).
"Information processing method" was invented by Taiki Yoshida (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kenta Nose (Kobe, Japan), Masaaki Hashimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yoshihiro Yamada (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Tomohiro Shin (Kanazawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method includes receiving first information indicating a travel plan of a user, acquiring, for each on-demand vehicle service, second information indicating boarding/alighting points and operation status of a vehicle, determining and presenting, based on...