ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,815, issued on March 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Call support system, call support method, and recording medium" was invented by Hajime Yokoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A call support system includes: a speech transmission mode switch unit that switches between a speech transmission permission mode that permits execution of call source speech transmission processing for speech of a user by a call control unit and a speech transmission prohibition mode that prohibits execution of the call source speech transmission processing for the speech of the user by the call control unit; and a light emittin...