US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Feb. 18 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,625, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Tomohito Takakura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Takada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenichiro Shimano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: an antenna for non-contact communication with a communication medium, with the communication medium storing first information; and a touch panel that electrically detects a contact or a proximity of an object as an input detection function. The antenna is arranged...