ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,093, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method performed by information processing apparatus" 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 apparatus displays a screen for selecting a purpose of use and a starting point of use of a power supply vehicle on a terminal apparatus used by a user, acquires ...