ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,753, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle dispatch system, vehicle dispatch method, server, user terminal, and storage medium" was invented by Junya Watanabe (Sunto-gun, Japan), Yuji Sasaki (Toyota, Japan), Seiji Arakawa (Sunto-gun, Japan), Naotoshi Kadotani (Sunto-gun, Japan), Masafumi Hayakawa (Susono, Japan) and Takashi Hayashi (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of th...