ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,001, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, program, computer readable recording medium, and information processing method" was invented by Miyuki Hanaoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiichi Unno (Kanagawa, Japan), Kiron Tsang (Kanagawa, Japan) and Junichiro Murata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit, an inspection information acquirement unit, and an information provision unit. The detection unit detects a user approaching a vehicle based on receiving a predetermined signal from the vehicle or an u...