US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Information processing device and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,488, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Takashige Hori (Aisai, Japan), Naohiro Yoshimura (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuya Fukagawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Naoto Yazawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device is an information processing device that acquires information from social media. The information processing device includes a control unit configured to: acquire at least one posted text from social media; extract at least one facility name from the posted text; select, as a candidate po...