ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,901, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Maho Hayashi (Tokyo), Sachiko Nishide (Tokyo), Miyuki Shirakawa (Tokyo), Tomonari Murakami (Tokyo), Koji Nagata (Tokyo) and Tetsuo Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section configured to acquire a situation of a subject vehicle and a situation of another vehicle, a setting section configured to set, on the basis of the situation of the subject vehicle and the situation of the other vehicle, a position in th...