US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on April 22 for "Notification controller and notification control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,171, issued on April 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Notification controller and notification control method" was invented by Tadashi Miyahara (Tokyo), Mitsuo Shimotani (Tokyo), Keisaku Fukuda (Tokyo) and Kuniyo Ieda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is intended to notify an off-board passenger of a hazardous situation occurring around a target vehicle in the presence of an on-board passenger in the vehicle. A notification controller according to the present disclosure includes: an on-board passenger judgment unit, if at least one passenger in a target vehicle gets out of the vehicle ...