ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,721, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle information management device, vehicle information management method, and storage medium" was invented by Junichiro Tamao (Tokyo), Takahiro Utsunomiya (Tokyo), Tomoaki Karasawa (Matsudo, Japan) and Takumi Horie (Chofu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle information management device, a vehicle information management method, and a storage medium are provided. Execution circuitry writes data to a memory in conjunction with execution of each of multiple applications. The execution circuitry determines whether the remaining number of writabl...