US Patent Issued to Maxell on Sept. 15 for "Information providing device, information providing method, and alerting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,138, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information providing device, information providing method, and alerting device" was invented by Kazuo Shikita (Otokuni-gun, Japan), Tomonori Hirabayashi (Otokuni-gun, Japan) and Shuji Nagatomi (Otokuni-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information providing device according to embodiments includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to acquire positional information of the target person. The control unit is configured to inform, as alerting information, the target person of position associated information that coincides with positional infor...