ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,881, issued on June 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing method" was invented by Hideaki Bunazawa (Nagoya, Japan), Keisuke Ninomiya (Nisshin, Japan), Kunio Suzuki (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Tomiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first relative frequency distribution in original data is calculated for each of feature amounts. Data segments are cut out from the original data using time windows. A second relative frequency in extracted data is calculated for each of the feature amounts. An error between the first relative frequency distribution and the second relative frequency distributi...