ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,112, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, route information providing method, and route information providing system" was invented by Atsushi Okubo (Nisshin, Japan), Kento Nitta (Tokyo), Takaaki Kato (Saitama, Japan), Daiki Kaneichi (Tokyo) and Minoru Nakadori (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes: an acquirer configured to acquire movement information on movement of a vehicle where a user is not on board, the movement information including position information of a movement destination; a storage configured to store...