ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,765, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, system, and method" was invented by Kaoru Yoshida (Nisshin, Japan), Masatoshi Kakutani (Miyoshi, Japan), Masataka Okuda (Toyota, Japan), Hiroki Maki (Toyota, Japan), Kosuke Watanabe (Toyota, Japan) and Kanade Kuriyama (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device mounted on a vehicle including a sensor includes an acquisition unit that acquires a surrounding image of the vehicle and information related to a behavior of the vehicle from the sensor, and an identification unit that identifies a mo...