ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,821, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Notification system, notification method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program" was invented by Shota Morishita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification system includes: detection means (110) for detecting an acoustic event from voice data transmitted from a communication terminal held by a target person; and notification means (120) for sending a predetermined notification when the detection means (110) has detected the acoustic event. Accordingly, it is possible to determine the state of a target person regardless of the state of this per...