US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 30 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,674, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yasufumi Hirakawa (Tokyo), Nobuaki Kawase (Tokyo) and Takashi Yasuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (100) includes a position information acquisition unit (102) that acquires position information of a customer, and an order reception unit (104) that receives an order for product purchase by the customer at a virtual store, when the position information satisfies a criterion."

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