ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,728, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing information processing program" was invented by Hirofumi Kanai (Osaka, Japan), Yuka Yamada (Nara, Japan) and Hideyuki Maehara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification device includes: an image data acquisition part that acquires image data captured by a camera which is provided to photograph buttocks of a user sitting on a toilet seat; a sitting position detection part that detects a sitting position of the user ...