ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,991, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Kuniaki Torii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implemented is a configuration for deciding a transport machine into which a robot get, by taking efficiency and cooperativeness into consideration. A data processing section that selects a transport machine to be taken by a robot is included. The data processing section acquires robot information that is about the robot and transport-machine information that is about the transport machine, calculates scor...