US Patent Issued to NEC on April 8 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,145, issued on April 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Junko Nakagawa (Tokyo), Ryoma Oami (Tokyo), Kenichiro Ida (Tokyo), Mika Saito (Tokyo), Shohzoh Nagahama (Tokyo), Akinari Furukawa (Tokyo), Yasumasa Ohtsuka (Tokyo), Junichi Fukuda (Tokyo), Fumi Ikeda (Tokyo), Manabu Moriyama (Tokyo), Fumie Einaga (Tokyo), Tatsunori Yamagami (Tokyo), Keisuke Hirayama (Tokyo), Yoshitsugu Kumano (Tokyo) and Hiroki Adachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (10) includes a time and space information acquisition unit...