ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,644, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Toshihiro Hirao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a parameter calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of a driving force characteristic in a predetermined reference gear stage of a simulation target vehicle to be simulated using an internal combustion engine as a power source, a first parameter related to the internal combustion engine in a simulated gear stage that is a simulative gear stage in a control target vehicl...