ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,970, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Cargo compartment monitoring device and cargo compartment monitoring method" was invented by Eijo Iwasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yutaka Mikuriya (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kotaro Chiba (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cargo compartment monitoring device and a cargo compartment monitoring method acquire cargo information including at least information indicating a position of a cargo loaded in a cargo compartment of a vehicle in the cargo compartment, via an acquiring unit, record the cargo information related to the cargo newly loaded on the veh...