ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,972, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to YOKOWO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle-mounted apparatus" was invented by Tsugio Yamamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-mounted apparatus for accommodating an electronic key of a vehicle, the apparatus comprises a speaker; a light emitting unit; an audio control unit configured to control the speaker to emit given audio guidance related to a handling procedure of the vehicle-mounted apparatus when the vehicle is used; and a lighting control unit configured to control lighting of the light emitting unit in conjunction with audio emission control of the audio guidance by the audio co...