ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,442, issued on March 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle information delivery device, vehicle information delivery method, and storage medium" was invented by Masayuki Itoh (Nagoya, Japan), Iwao Maeda (Nagoya, Japan), Tatsuya Sugano (Susono, Japan), Norinao Watanabe (Susono, Japan), Yutaka Nakamura (Susono, Japan), Yoshikazu Jikuhara (Susono, Japan) and Yuki Nishikawa (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle information delivery device includes an image processing unit configured to generate vehicle related images indicating the status of a vehicle moving unmanned in a predetermined targ...