ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,277, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Meeting support system, meeting support method, and program" was invented by Takeaki Ohsawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Youhei Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Takamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuji Takada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meeting support system includes a communication unit capable of communicating with a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal, and a controller configured to generate support information to be sent to the first communication terminal before the first communication terminal arrives at th...