US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 29 for "Service support apparatus, system, and service support method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,221, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Service support apparatus, system, and service support method" was invented by Chikage Kubo (Chofu, Japan), Kazuya Nishimura (Anjo, Japan), Wataru Minoura (Nagoya, Japan), Yuki Tatsumoto (Seto, Japan) and Soutaro Kaneko (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service support apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus of a user or a staff member, and a controller configured to acquire status data indicating a parking status of shared vehicles at a plurality of locations, and transmit presentation ...