ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,766, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle information management device" was invented by Isao Honda (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle information management device includes: a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: before a vehicle arrives at a planned vehicle boarding area of a user, acquire road surface information of the planned vehicle boarding area; based on the road surface information, determine whether or not a road surface height of a planned vehicle boarding position, at which the user is waiting at the planned vehicle boarding area, is a height...