ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,585, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information providing method and information providing system" was invented by Miyuki Shigeta (Kanagawa, Japan), Takura Yanagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Takamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiko Ebina (Kanagawa, Japan), Shota Okubo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Saori Ono (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information providing method provides information using an output equipment disposed in a vehicle to a user who is an occupant of the vehicle. The information providing method includes: determining a topic provided to the user and first information...