ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,998, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Location information output method, location information output system, and program" was invented by Kohei Noguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location information output method includes acquiring location information from a moving body via a network, the location information indicating a location measured by a location measuring device mounted on the moving body which includes at least one of a vehicle and a terminal device owned by an occupant of the vehicle, determining an operating state of the vehicle on the basis of the information received from ...