ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,616, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Shoichi Hoshino (Tokyo), Atsushi Nogami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuhiko Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a processing apparatus for determining a state of secular change of a deformation of a construction, comprising a selection unit that selects, as a target for determination of secular change, at least a portion of deformations from among a plurality of deformations included in a first image a...