ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,590, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle interior monitoring apparatus, vehicle interior monitoring method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Toshiaki Kawamura (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Watanabe (Tokyo) and Yuichi Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle interior monitoring apparatus (10) includes an acquisition unit (110), a detection unit (120), and a notification processing unit (130). The acquisition unit (110) repeatedly acquires, after a power source of a vehicle is turned off and a door of the vehicle is opened and closed at least once, sensor data indicating a resul...