ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,954, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Data collection device and method" was invented by Yohei Ogawa (Toyota, Japan) and Jun Tahara (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collection device of the present disclosure is mounted on a vehicle and collects data on a state of the vehicle. The device acquires an aggregation format of the data from an external device and aggregates the data collected from the vehicle to generate an aggregation result in the aggregation format specified by the external device. The device sends the aggregation result to the external device. The device enabl...