ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,657, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Keiichi Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus capable of integrating maps with high accuracy while maintaining the degree of freedom of the movement route in map creation, acquires map data generated in accordance with movement of a movable apparatus, acquires characteristic information for identifying a partial region of a movement route of the movable apparatus, records the characteristic information in association w...