ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,159, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information processing method" was invented by Hitoshi Kageyama (Tokyo), Feng Xu (Yokohama, Japan) and Azusa Watanabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executed by an information processing apparatus. A designation of a service used by the user is accepted from among a plurality of services for renting a vehicle to the user. Based on the designated service, design data in which a design of a user interface used by the user to search for the vehicle related to the rental is defined is output."
The patent was filed on Dec. 12, 2023, under Applic...