ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,826, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MICWARE Co. LTD (Kobe, Japan).

"Location information processing devices, methods, and systems for moving bodies" was invented by Kaori Shihoya (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kitagawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device performs information processing on position coordinates of a moving body. The information processing device includes a storage and a controller. The storage stores travel history information including a series of position coordinates indicative of a travel history of the moving body. The controller performs map matching that corrects the posit...