US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on May 20 for "Notification control device, notification control method, and notification system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,881, issued on May 20, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Notification control device, notification control method, and notification system" was invented by Ayumi Nakagawa (Tokyo), Takeshi Ogita (Tokyo) and Osamu Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification control device according to the present technology includes a control unit that controls a notification mode by a notification device that performs a notification of detection of an environmental sound, on a basis of an arrangement state of the notification device or a state of a user of the notification device."

The patent was filed on June 22, 2021, under Ap...