ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,809, issued on March 31, was assigned to PIONEER Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information providing device, information providing method, and information providing program" was invented by Kotaro Fukui (Saitama, Japan), Masahiro Iwata (Saitama, Japan), Shinichiro Iino (Saitama, Japan), Shota Izumi (Saitama, Japan) and Yohei Onuma (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an information provision device and the like capable of reliably providing necessary guidance information while reducing the amount of audio information that is necessary for processing.The information provision device is provided with: a guid...