ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,525, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing system and information processing method" was invented by Kei Kanaoka (Nagoya, Japan), Shun Maeda (Nisshin, Japan), Yoshihiro Murozaki (Nisshin, Japan), Hiroko Tsujimura (Nagoya, Japan), Daiki Kaneichi (Nisshin, Japan) and Kuniaki Jinnai (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes: a collection/delivery request portion configured to notify, to a terminal of a carrier who collects or delivers a package, information on a collection/delivery area where the package is requested to be collected o...