ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,095, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information management system" was invented by Masahiko Ishii (Okazaki, Japan), Hidetaka Asano (Nisshin, Japan), Takuya Kondo (Toyota, Japan), Ryota Suzuki (Ikeda, Japan) and Keiichi Koga (Narashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node of a C company verifies transaction data received from a node of a B company, the transaction data proposing addition of a subject substance to a restriction list. When the node of the C company determines that information indicating that a new proposed subject substance falls under a restricted substance is incorrect...