ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,912, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Device of predicting, medium of predicting, and method of predicting production index using moving object stay number" was invented by Takuya Kaneko (Sakura, Japan), Yutaro Mishima (Fujimino, Japan), Shinya Wada (Fujimino, Japan), Rui Kimura (Shinjuku, Japan), Ryota Osumi (Nagoya, Japan) and Noriaki Saitoh (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prediction device includes one or more processors configured to record a number of moving objects staying in a predetermined production area for every predetermined period, record an actual production index ...