ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,439, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle-mounted apparatus, processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Yuma Yazaki (Tokyo), Takahiro Kato (Tokyo) and Yusuke Koitabashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-mounted apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes: a surrounding object information acquisition unit (11) that acquires surrounding object information relating to a surrounding object being an object detected in surroundings of a vehicle; a line-of-sight information acquisition unit (12) that acquires line-of-sight information of a driver of the vehicl...