ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,759, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Alert message display device, alert message display method, and program recording medium" was invented by Sawaka Seki (Tokyo), Yoko Tanaka (Tokyo), Hitomi Ito (Tokyo), Nozomi Matsumoto (Tokyo), Masaru Yanai (Tokyo) and Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To suppress the occurrence of accidents when a large passenger vehicle is stopped. This alert message display device is provided with: a stopped time prediction unit that predicts a stopped time for a large passenger vehicle that is stopped or scheduled to be stopped; a sensing unit that senses the surround...