US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 28 for "Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for granting an incentive to share vehicle history" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,807, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for granting an incentive to share vehicle history" was invented by Toyokazu Nakashima (Nagoya, Japan), Takeshi Takemoto (Nagoya, Japan), Naoko Yamafuji (Nagoya, Japan) and Naoya Oka (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of an information processing apparatus acquires, in a case in which a previous user of a vehicle has not given consent to disclose history data for the vehicle, information indicating whether a current user of the vehicle has given c...