US Patent Issued to NEC on June 24 for "In-vehicle apparatus, drinking determination method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,625, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"In-vehicle apparatus, drinking determination method, and storage medium" was invented by Kyohei Narita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: estimated walking path acquisition means for acquiring an estimated walking path, which is a path in which it is estimated that a driver will walk; and drinking determination means for determining whether or not the driver is drunk based on a walking pattern of the driver in the estimated walking path."

The patent was filed on March 11, 2020, under Application No. 17...