ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,154, issued on April 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information provision device, information provision system, information provision method, and program" was invented by Yuki Hashimoto (Tokyo), Goh Shibata (Tokyo) and Takayuki Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for providing information is provided. The method includes acquiring first positional information of a moving body, acquiring second positional information of a user, obtaining positional relationship information based on the first positional information and the second positional information, and based on a distance between the mo...