ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,990, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information providing system" was invented by Yuki Tatsumoto (Seto, Japan), Ryutaro Tomita (Tokyo), Mami Noguchi (Nagoya, Japan), Kenichiro Sugihara (Kounosu, Japan), Hiroyuki Nakajima (Tokyo) and Yuko Nagai (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information providing system includes a memory device that stores accident-prone location information including items. Each of the items includes position information of a spot that requires attention of a driver and a precaution related to the spot. The processing circuitry is configured to store, in the...