US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,391, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing system" was invented by Ryogo Nonaka (Kawasaki, Japan), Hirona Ota (Seto, Japan), Yuki Tatsumoto (Seto, Japan) and Tsunehiro Yokomori (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to acquire first data for identifying a first user who is a user of an on-demand bus that is operated on demand, the first data being read by a signage apparatus installed at a boarding/alighting point of the on-demand bus, and make a boarding reservatio...