ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,342, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, movable apparatus, and recording medium" was invented by Kohei Iwabuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus acquires control-related information that includes dynamically changing environment information used for control of a movable apparatus, and adjusts, based on the acquired control-related information, a traveling rule that is followed by the movable apparatus. In addition, the information processing apparatus controls driving of the movable apparatus based ...