ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,940, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information processing apparatus" was invented by Takashi Mizuno (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller acquires first information related to a request for a predetermined operation performed before a first vehicle moves, which is required for the first vehicle from outside the first vehicle parked in a parking lot; and transmits, in response to acquiring the first information, second information for causing a user of a second vehicle waiting for parking to recognize a position where the first vehicle is parked."
The patent was filed on...