ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,881, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Hanae Shiratori (Susono, Japan), Masao Yano (Susono, Japan), Tetsuya Shoji (Susono, Japan) and Yasuhiro Toyama (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes: an acquiring section acquiring small angle scattering data obtained by measuring a material, and supplemental information that is two-dimensional data of the material; and a predicting section that, by using the small angle scattering data and the...