US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 20 for "Information providing system, information providing method and program recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,022, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information providing system, information providing method and program recording medium" was invented by Kazuki Ogata (Tokyo), Hiroaki Aminaka (Tokyo), Tetsuro Hasegawa (Tokyo), Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Kei Yanagisawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information providing system includes: a target person detection means that detects a target person whose at-home status is to be managed among persons passing through a public area based on information acquired from a device installed in the public area; a moving direction identification means that identifies a movin...