ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,029, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Toyokazu Nakashima (Nagoya, Japan), Yurika Tanaka (Yokosuka, Japan), Shoji Sakamoto (Ichikawa, Japan), Yusuke Kobayashi (Ota-ku, Japan), Kotaro Okabe (Ichikawa, Japan), Hirotada Nakanishi (Toyota, Japan), Naoya Oka (Nagakute, Japan) and Daiki Otani (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to select at least one store as a recommended store from among a plurality of stores located in a v...