US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Management apparatus, management method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,441, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Management apparatus, management method, and program" was invented by Junya Ota (Tokyo-to, Japan), Takatoshi Morimitsu (Toyota, Japan), Uori Koike (Saitama, Japan) and Kunihiro Iwamoto (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management apparatus, a management method, and a program capable of preventing inefficient replenishment from being performed are provided. A management apparatus includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire consumption information, which is information indicating an amount of consumption of articles stored i...