ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,501, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PARAMOUNT BED Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Junpei Kumagai (Kanagawa, Japan), Keita Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Ikuhiro Aota (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Katayanagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazutoshi Ohishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirokazu Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeyoshi Obara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a housing in which a distance sensor is placed, fittings attaching the housing to a...