US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Oct. 21 for "Information providing method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,155, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Information providing method" was invented by Masaki Yamauchi (San Jose, Calif.) and Nanami Fujiwara (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information providing method includes: generating first information indicating that a friendly gathering is occurring in a home when (i) a threshold amount of time or longer has elapsed from a start time of food preparation by a user and (ii) the volume of sound in a dining space is a first threshold volume or greater; obtaining, from a second information processing ...