ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,960, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Information providing method, vehicle system and management device" was invented by Narihiro Akari (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahide Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshitaka Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Eijo Iwasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes an information providing device, an information collection device, a communication device and a controller. The information providing device provides information to a user of a vehicle about an object that is located in a periphery of the vehicle. The information collection dev...