US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN GROUP on June 10 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,267, issued on June 10, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Sander De Kievit (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, comprising: a position detection unit configured to detect a position of the information processing apparatus; a point card selection unit configured to select, from a plurality of point cards stored in advance in the information processing apparatus, point cards associated with the position of the information processing apparatus detected by the position detection unit; a ...