ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,940, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information processing method" was invented by Ryosuke Kobayashi (Nagakute, Japan), Koichi Watanabe (Tokyo-to, Japan), Motofumi Kamiya (Nagoya, Japan), Masaki Nishino (Anjo, Japan), Jean-Sebastien Boire (Yokohama, Japan), Takuya Nishioka (Nagoya, Japan), Yohei Nakanishi (Nagoya, Japan) and Masaki Makihara (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus includes receiving a request for charging that includes information indicating a destination from a user terminal, determining ...