ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,692, issued on May 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Information processing device, computer-readable recording medium recording a program, and information processing method" was invented by Takahiro Kudoh (Kyoto, Japan) and Eiichi Naito (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes: a state information acquisition unit that acquires state information representing a state of a battery mounted on an electric device driven by the battery; an association information acquisition unit that acquires association information representing an...