US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 22 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,908, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Koji Shikanai (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus acquires vehicle state information for each of a plurality of vehicles. The information processing apparatus estimates road surface state information of a road surface on which each of the vehicles has traveled, based on the acquired vehicle state information for each of the vehicles. The information processing apparatus estimates the road surface state informatio...