US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on July 1 for "Travel distance calculation method, travel distance calculation device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing travel distance calculation program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,545, issued on July 1, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Travel distance calculation method, travel distance calculation device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing travel distance calculation program" was invented by Hiroya Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Yuko Kida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel distance calculation device is configured to: add a first distance between a first main sensor and a hub sensor to a travel distance when a person is detected by the hub sensor provided in a third space connecting a first space and a second sp...