ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,101, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Information processing device, delivery system, program, and information processing method" was invented by Yoshikazu Jikuhara (Miyoshi, Japan), Jun Hioki (Nagakute, Japan), Kaori Yamada (Nagakute, Japan), Maiko Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan), Yuki Kuwayama (Yokohama, Japan), Shunya Maruta (Tokyo) and Yo Okumura (Chofu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing device manages a vehicle for package delivery and a logistics robot permanently installed in the apartment house. The information processing device includes a control unit that acq...