ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,396, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Flow line display apparatus, flow line display method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Shoji Nishimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow line display apparatus (10) includes an acquisition unit (110) and a display processing unit (120). The acquisition unit (110) acquires at least one piece of flow line information. The flow line information includes a flow line of a person, and action information indicating an action performed when the person moves along the flow line and a location where the action is performed. The flow lin...