US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 30 for "Remote monitoring system, route-providing apparatus, and route-providing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,594, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Remote monitoring system, route-providing apparatus, and route-providing method" was invented by Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo), Takanori Iwai (Tokyo), Yusuke Shinohara (Tokyo), Koichi Nihei (Tokyo), Masayuki Sakata (Tokyo) and Takashi Yamane (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The moving body receives data from a remote monitoring apparatus and transmits data to the remote monitoring apparatus, via the wireless communication network. A candidate route acquisition unit acquires a candidate route of the moving body to a destination. A communication quality evaluation unit evaluate...