ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,281, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device and method of creating fee plan" was invented by Shinya Kotera (Nagoya, Japan), Yu Hamada (Nagoya, Japan), Shohei Manabe (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuyuki Sakuma (Nagoya, Japan), Yuri Sonehara (Nagoya, Japan), Shunichi Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan), Takuya Taniguchi (Nagoya, Japan) and Kenta Kawashima (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device is an information processing device that outputs a fee plan indicating a fee required to use a vehicle or battery selected by a user, the information processing device ...