ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,100, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus including an obstacle information acquisition unit configured to acquire obstacle information relating to an obstacle; a path information acquisition unit configured to acquire path information for a path on which a movable apparatus will move with respect to a plurality of movable apparatuses; an environment information acquisition unit configured to acquire environment info...