ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,601, issued on May 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information provision system and information provision method" was invented by Katsumasa Ishikawa (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information provision system includes: a predetermined object extraction unit configured to extract a predetermined object present on the ground below a target aircraft based on a flight position of the target aircraft and map information; a predetermined object information acquisition unit configured to access an information database in which information regarding the predetermined object is recorded and to acquire predete...