ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,094, issued on March 11, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inter-device positional relationship estimation device, inter-device positional relationship estimation method, and program" was invented by Misao Kataoka (Musashino, Japan), Hirofumi Noguchi (Musashino, Japan), Takuma Isoda (Musashino, Japan) and Kyota Hattori (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inter-device positional relationship estimation apparatus includes an analysis information acquisition unit that acquires time-series analysis information, a recommendation processing unit that estimates unanalyzed detailed information in...