US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 13 for "Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,250, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Tsukasa Kasuya (Tokyo), Tomoaki Tanaka (Tokyo), Norihiro Ide (Tokyo) and Kouichi Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a vehicle control apparatus (10) including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires internal situation information indicating a situation inside a vehicle; a detection unit (12) that detects a person who satisfies a predetermined condition inside the vehicle, based on the internal situation information; a decision unit (13) ...