US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 19 for "Information management system and information management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,910, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information management system and information management method" was invented by Masahiko Ishii (Okazaki, Japan), Hidetaka Asano (Nissin, Japan), Keiichi Koga (Narashino, Japan) and Ryota Suzuki (Ikeda, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When information on a chemical substance is disclosed by a node of an upstream company (S11), a controller updates product composition data (S12) and determines whether or not the disclosed information on the chemical substance is to be kept secret (S13). When the controller determines that the disclosed information on th...