ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,469, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing method, information processing device, and program" was invented by Masahiro Yamada (Tokyo), Yohei Chishiki (Tokyo) and Kenji Takao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method includes a step of acquiring movement information on a first mobile body including information on a first position through which the first mobile body is scheduled to pass in a first time slot and information on a travel direction of the first mobile body and a step of setting, as an exclusive area in the first time slot, an area...