ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,508, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Atsushi Nogami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on a defective state of a structure, a degree of soundness that indicates how much the structure is sound is determined. Information about a defective state of the structure that provides grounds for this determination is outputted."

The patent was filed on March 22, 2023, under Application No. 18/188,357.

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