ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,499, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Lei Zhong (Chuo-ku, Japan), Jing Ma (Yokohama, Japan) and Xiao Shao (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive a request including at least two identification information pieces among a plurality of identification information pieces and a condition under which at least two information pieces that are respectively obtained for the at least two identification information pieces are composited, th...