ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,547, issued on June 3, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Vehicle device and method executed by vehicle device" was invented by Hisashi Koiso (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger detector identifies biometric information of a passenger on board a vehicle from a video captured by a camera that captures the inside of the cabin of the vehicle and specifies the boarding position of the passenger. A determiner determines whether or not a mobile terminal associated with the biometric information identified by the passenger detector is in a state of being connectable by near field communication. In a ...