ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,197, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Information providing system, server device and information providing method" was invented by Takashi Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Masanobu Oe (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information providing system includes a mobile terminal and a server device that communicates with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes: a sensor that reads a facility ID used to identify at least one facility; and a communication device that transmits, to the server device, the facility ID read by the sensor and a user ID used to identify a user...