ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,215, issued on July 8, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing device, mobile device, information processing system, and method" was invented by Eiji Oba (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Individually-identifiable data included in observation information of a driver or the like of a vehicle or data for which recording processing is not permitted in a personal information protection regulation is abstracted or encrypted and recorded. A driver information acquisition unit that acquires the observation information of the driver of the vehicle and a data processing unit t...