ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,791, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Toyokazu Nakashima (Nagoya, Japan) and Shunsuke Sagara (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing device determines an observation target region to be observed by the artificial satellite 4 on the basis of information on vibration during traveling of the vehicle. Then, the information processing device determines whether or not a liquefaction phenomenon has occurred based on the data obtained by observing the obse...