ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,829, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control apparatus, system, and control method" was invented by Toyokazu Nakashima (Nagoya, Japan), Takeshi Takemoto (Nagoya, Japan), Naoko Yamafuji (Nagoya, Japan) and Naoya Oka (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a controller configured to, when it is detected that first vehicle data obtained by monitoring a state of a vehicle and disclosed with consent of an owner of the vehicle has been viewed by a user, notify the user of first information prompting for consent to disclose second vehicle data obtained by monitorin...