ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,943, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information provision system using image date, information provision method using image date, and non-transitory storage medium storing information provision program using image date" was invented by Makoto Takamoto (Tokyo) and Hanae Shimomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an information provision system (10) including: a determination unit (11) that determines an object of interest to a customer present in a facility among displayed articles present in the facility, based on attribute information of the customer; an estimation unit (12...