ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,504, issued on July 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Osamu Sakaguchi (Tokyo), Tomohiro Hatae (Tokyo) and Cheng Zhang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: an information management unit that registers boarding information on a user regarding boarding acquired by a check-in procedure of the user; and a deadline setting unit that, based on the boarding information, sets a deadline for a procedure of the user up to the boarding."

The patent was filed on Aug. 25, 2023, under Applicatio...