US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 22 for "Information processing device, information processing method, and system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,808, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and system" was invented by Toyokazu Nakashima (Nagoya, Japan), Takayuki Hatori (Nagakute, Japan), Shuichi Sawada (Nagoya, Japan), Daiki Kubo (Toyota, Japan), Tomoki Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Naoya Oka (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device has a control unit that acquires information relating to a fluctuation of power consumed by an electrical product operating around a user, and that estimates a product consumed by the user and a consumption quantity...