ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,376, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SODE-EN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Support system and support method" was invented by Atsushi Tomoeda (Tokyo), Takeshi Imazeki (Matsudo, Japan), Yasukazu Aoki (Tokyo), Haruhisa Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Taku Miyake (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support system according to the present invention is provided with a whereabouts identifying unit configured to identify the position where a person needing care is present, an area identifying unit configured to identify an affected area, in which there is a possibility that the line of movement of the person needing care and the line of movement of an appro...