ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,474, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information provision server, information provision method, and recording medium storing program" was invented by Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo), Tetsuro Hasegawa (Tokyo), Takayuki Sasaki (Tokyo), Hiroaki Aminaka (Tokyo), Kei Yanagisawa (Tokyo) and Kazuki Ogata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information provision server includes: an determination part for determining, based on primary information acquired from an individual one of a plurality of sensors, each of which senses a predetermined range of a road, whether or not to provide secondary information created by using...