ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,271, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device for capturing peripheral images from a vehicle-mounted image capturing unit" was invented by Kazuya Nishimura (Anjo, Japan), Naoki Uenoyama (Kasugai, Japan), Keiko Nakano (Kawasaki, Japan), Yohei Nakanishi (Nagoya, Japan) and Takahiro Matsumura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a processor. In response to an occurrence of at least one of a weather-related event and a natural disaster event, the processor identifies a vehicle located at a...