ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,467, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Masaki Shibahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (1) includes: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires information regarding a position of each of a plurality of communication terminals connected to a network; a first identification unit (12) that identifies a communication terminal located in a disaster region among the plurality of communication terminals as a first disaster respo...