ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,936, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SOFTBANK CORP. (Tokyo) and NEURALX INC. (Los Angeles).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Yuko Ishiwaka (Tokyo) and Masaki Nakada (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire individual information indicating a characteristic of behavior of an individual belonging to a group of living organisms to be processed arranged in a virtual space, relative information indicating a characteristic of the behavior relative to the indiv...