US Patent Issued to NEC on July 28 for "Information providing apparatus, information providing system, information providing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,049, issued on July 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information providing apparatus, information providing system, information providing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" 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 registration unit registers pieces of identification information of user terminals possessed by users, respectively, as a group. A position information acquisition unit acquires pieces of position information of the plurality of user terminals registered as the group. A reaching detection unit detects, from position infor...