ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,792, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Used car sales system" was invented by Yuko Terasawa (Meguro-ku Tokyo-to, Japan), Makoto Kakuchi (Toyota, Japan), Toshiaki Karasawa (Adachi-ku Tokyo-to, Japan), Takeshi Higashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yoshihiko Endo (Minato-ku Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management server performs a process including: in response to receiving a request to display a selection screen, acquiring vehicle body information and displaying a selectable vehicle type; in response to receiving vehicle type selection information, specifying a selected vehicle...