ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,564, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kagoshima University (Kagoshima, Japan), Ocean Solution Technology K.K. (Nagasaki, Japan), Sasebo Kokai Sokkisha Co. Ltd. (Nagasaki, Japan) and Neos Corp. (Tokyo).

"Seafarer safety device, seafarer safety system, seafarer safety program, vessel activity inference device, report generation assistance system, and vessel activity inference program" was invented by Kentaro Oda (Kagoshima, Japan), Yosuke Mizukami (Nagasaki, Japan), Kaito Yamao (Nagasaki, Japan), Hideki Miyagishima (Tokyo) and Naoya Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seafarer safety device (500) includes an evaluator ...