ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,986, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Notification control device, notification control method, and storage medium" was invented by Gakuyo Fujimoto (Wako, Japan), Masamitsu Tsuchiya (Wako, Japan), Misako Yoshimura (Wako, Japan) and Shigenobu Saigusa (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification control device performs: detecting a sightline of a driver; causing an information output device to output a first warning when a first condition is satisfied; and causing the information output device to output a second warning when a second condition is satisfied. The first condition is a conditi...