ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,556, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle-related time alert device, system, and method" was invented by Takayoshi Inuma (Tokyo) and Jun Takizawa (Chino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alert device includes a data communication circuit configured to receive, from an alert control device, time information representing a vehicle-related time that is a time relating to a vehicle. The alert device also includes a storer that is a memory or a storage device, the storer being configured to store the received time information, and an alertor configured to execute an alert relating to the vehicle, ...