ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,382, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information providing device" was invented by Atsuyuki Suzuki (Wako, Japan), Akira Terauchi (Wako, Japan), Koji Toumiya (Wako, Japan), Naoko Imai (Wako, Japan) and Ryo Saiki (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information providing device for use in a moving body includes: a user behavior recognition unit configured to recognize a behavior of a user boarding on the moving body; a recommendation information output unit configured to output recommendation information for a prescribed service when the user behavior recognition unit recognizes a specific be...