ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,525, issued on May 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Yuki Ashino (Tokyo), Takashi Hitani (Tokyo) and Miyu Yakumaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device acquires a first position indicating a physical position of a first communication device, a second position indicating a physical position of a second communication device, and a plurality of third positions indicating physical positions set in a path connecting the first position and the second position; and searches for a physical path correspondi...