US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory storage medium thereof for controlling light source embedded in parking lot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,305, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory storage medium thereof for controlling light source embedded in parking lot" was invented by Kodai Takanohashi (Okazaki, Japan), Atsushi Okubo (Nisshin, Japan), Yuji Tachibana (Nisshin, Japan), Shogo Momoshima (Nagoya, Japan), Takaaki Kato (Saitama, Japan), Daiki Kaneichi (Tokyo) and Minoru Nakadori (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit of an information processing apparatus determines, upon determining that a demand for parking in a parking lot is low based on a comparison b...