ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,727, issued on July 28, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Environmental state notification device and environmental state notification method" was invented by Yusuke Hieida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technology advantageous for improving safety of a user is provided. An environmental state notification device includes an environment information acquisition unit that is attached to a user and acquires environment information data indicating information regarding a surrounding environment of the user, an environmental state recognition unit that recognizes a state of a surrounding environment with respect to the u...