ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,972,246, issued on April 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Yuta Tone (Nagoya, Japan), Yukinori II (Toyota, Japan), Tadayuki Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan), Naoki Ishizuka (Nagoya, Japan), Yuichiro Yano (Nagakute, Japan), Nariaki Amano (Nagoya, Japan), Yusuke Maeda (Miyoshi, Japan), Kei Yazaki (Okazaki, Japan) and Yu Hamada (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processor that: receives, from a user terminal, a request for first update regarding a first vehicle, notifies...