US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 8 for "Information processing device and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,194, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Koichi Suzuki (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the information processing device according to the present disclosure, when the use start request of the first vehicle is received from the first terminal, the control unit transmits, to the first vehicle, a first command for transmitting the first identification information of the first vehicle by visible light communication. Thereafter, when the first signal including the second identification information and the...