ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,458, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Visit assistance device, visit assistance system, visit assistance method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium having program stored therein" was invented by Tatsuki Akutsu (Tokyo) and Miki Otani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visit assistance device, a visit assistance system, a visit assistance method, and a program are provided that can assist realization of a comfortable visit. A visit assistance device (1) includes a registration unit (2) configured to register a status in a seated condition of a user who is seated in a predetermined space for each user...