ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,988, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Information processing method, information processing device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Shunsuke Kuhara (Osaka, Japan) and Masayoshi Tojima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method includes the following executed by a computer: obtaining a result of sensing the interior of a mobile body; performing a recognition process of recognizing at least one of dirt and damage inside the mobile body, on the basis of the result of sensing; determining h...