ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,840, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Server apparatus, system, and operating method of system" was invented by Yoshikazu Jikuhara (Miyoshi, Japan), Shin Sakurada (Toyota, Japan), Tomokazu Maya (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroyuki Bandai (Toyota, Japan) and Hiromitsu Fujii (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate via the communication interface with at least one mobile object that has a changing room. The controller is configured to transmit an instruction to the mobile object to move to a specified loc...