ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,339, issued on June 10, was assigned to Piis Inc. (Musashino, Japan).

"Generation of clusters based on plural user data relevant to travel stops" was invented by Shimpei Morita (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cluster generation apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to acquire position information and time information for a plurality of users; generate a cluster based on spots visited by the users by using the position information for the users, the cluster being a classification of the users; and generate, for each generated cluster, a movement route based on a history of movement of the cluster betwee...