US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program for collecting feature data" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,415, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for collecting feature data" was invented by Masahiro Tanaka (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for collecting feature data includes a memory configured to store, for each of vehicles, a mileage of the vehicle or the amount of feature data transmitted by the vehicle and representing a feature related to travel of the vehicles; and one or more processors configured to set a transmission condition for permitting transmission of the feature data for each of the vehicles so that, of the vehicles, ...