ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,947, issued on July 1, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Product purchase system, server, first communication terminal and second communication terminal" was invented by Hiroyuki Chida (Tokyo), Takahito Inoh (Tokyo), Yosuke Ohtomo (Tokyo), Mitsuo Aoki (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Suzuki (Tokyo), Kazunori Ozaki (Tokyo) and Kazuya Tachimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product purchase system includes a first communication terminal carried by an advertising user, a second communication terminal provided to be movable with a vehicle, and a server. The first communication terminal sends advertisement product information indicating a ...