US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 11 for "Information processing system, information processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,520, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing system, information processing method, and program" was invented by Kiyomi Sakakibara (Iwakura, Japan), Shintaro Yoshizawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuhei Yamaguchi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing system includes a classification unit, an acquisition unit, a selection unit, an evaluation unit, and a generation unit. The classification unit classifies a plurality of fragrances into segments defined corresponding to a combination of one of first classification items on a first classification axis wit...