ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,011, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Mitsuteru Emoto (Toyota, Japan), Masakazu Shinkai (Toyota, Japan) and Yusuke Matsukawa (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is provided that determines, in response to an order for a sticker indicating that a predetermined part of a vehicle has been upgraded, the number of issues of the sticker according the predetermined part."
The patent was filed on Sept. 19, 2022, under Application No. 17/933,161.
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