ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,979, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information management system and information management method" was invented by Masahiko Ishii (Okazaki, Japan), Hidetaka Asano (Nisshin, Japan), Akiko Tamura (Nisshin, Japan), Koji Hetsugi (Toyota, Japan), Ryota Suzuki (Ikeda, Japan) and Keiichi Koga (Narashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information management system includes information management apparatuses belonging to A to D companies, respectively, and a platform provider. When a new chemical substance is added as a result of revision of laws and regulations etc. to chemical substances ...