ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,593, issued on June 23, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Information processing device, and method and program for controlling the same" was invented by Yasuhiro Nomura (Kobe, Japan), Yuki Ko (Kobe, Japan) and Nao Hirakawa (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device in a virtual race provision system that provides a virtual race on a virtual course using an indoor aerobic exercise device, the information processing device comprising: a generator that generates drive information to drive an indoor aerobic exercise device run by a user that participates in a virtual race on the basis of cours...