ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,612, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Yoshikazu Jikuhara (Miyoshi, Japan), Seii Sai (Yokohama, Japan), Ibuki Shimada (Miyoshi, Japan), Takahiro Aoki (Saitama, Japan) and Keishi Kinoshita (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to, upon accepting appointments for health checkups from users, present the users with inquiry information inquiring of each user whether to be able to provide a parking place for a vehicle equippe...