ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,751, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, vehicle, and information processing system" was invented by Yoshihisa Yamada (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake ECU executes a process including the steps of: acquiring input information; determining whether predetermined conditions are met; when the predetermined conditions are met, acquiring vehicle speed data; updating a vehicle speed frequency distribution using the acquired vehicle speed data; and sending the updated vehicle speed frequency distribution to a data center."

The patent was filed on Oct. 1...