ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,937, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information processing apparatus, and method" was invented by Toshiki Kashiwakura (Nagakute, Japan), Takahiro Aoki (Nagoya, Japan), Tsuyoshi Okada (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiromitsu Fujii (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus acquires position information of a user terminal, and causes the user terminal to issue a first notification by audio or vibration in a case where a distance between a first point where a user of the user terminal is to get on board a vehicle provided for a predetermined service and the user termi...