ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,712, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus for recommending a desired vehicle topcoat when the body color does not match" was invented by Kenji Yamaguchi (Miyoshi, Japan), Yohei Nakanishi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yu Hamada (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing apparatus acquires the first body color desired by a user as a body color of a vehicle ordered by the user. Furthermore, based on at least the appraised value of the vehicle having a first body color after a predetermined period has elapsed, the information processing apparatus det...