ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,618, issued on March 18, was assigned to SATO HOLDINGS K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing system, computer-readable storage medium, and information processing method" was invented by Hiroaki Hasegawa (Tokyo), Masanori Ogawa (Tokyo) and Kei Kitano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to acquire position information of a communication device; and a storage configured to store first map information and second map information. The processor is further configured to, in a case in which the processor acquires position information a pred...