ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,040, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Enhanced locker security apparatus and method" was invented by Yuki Tatsumoto (Nisshin, Japan), Yukinari Kato (Okazaki, Japan), Toshiki Kashiwakura (Ota-ku Tokyo-to, Japan), Hiroyuki Suzuki (Miyoshi, Japan) and Hirohiko Taniguchi (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure enhances security of a service of storing baggage in a locker loaded in a vehicle. An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure includes a controller configured to, for baggage stored in a locker loaded in a vehicle, make a notification that c...