US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Vehicle management server, communication terminal, and vehicle management program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,390, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle management server, communication terminal, and vehicle management program" was invented by Shun Ota (Susono, Japan), Taro Hasegawa (Toyota, Japan), Tomoya Takeda (Toyota, Japan), Yuka Nishiyama (Toyota, Japan), Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan), Tatsuya Sugano (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Taizo Masuda (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle management server manages a vehicle rented as a robot taxi from an owner to a user. The vehicle management server transmits the vehicle position information to a communication terminal of the owner when the...