ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,169, issued on April 22, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Monitoring system, monitoring method, and recording medium" was invented by Yasushi Watanabe (Tokyo), Takuji Ogawa (Tokyo), Yukio Nada (Tokyo) and Sayuri Watanabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a monitoring system that provides appropriate notification in accordance with whether or not a person to be monitored is with a registered companion. This monitoring system is provided with: a recognition unit which recognizes a person to be monitored and a registered companion associated with the person to be monitored; and a notification unit which notifies a pres...