ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,959, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Notification device, notification method, recording medium, and notification system" was invented by Yoshiki Ohashi (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhiro Kuroyama (Osaka, Japan), Hiroki Urabe (Osaka, Japan), Satoru Matsunaga (Osaka, Japan) and Hiromu Ikeuchi (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification device includes: an outputter that outputs a sound according to a predetermined condition after outputting notification start information, when the predetermined condition is met; an obtainer that obtains notification start in...