ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,653, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method" was invented by Hideo Hasegawa (Nagoya, Japan), Yurika Tanaka (Yokosuka, Japan) and Satoshi Komamine (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to predict a state of congestion of an elevator installed in a building and generate, based on the predicted state of congestion, a proposal message to propose a departure time for the building to a user pl...