ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,134, issued on July 14, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Prediction program, prediction method, and prediction device" was invented by Fumiyasu Makinoshima (Kawasaki, Japan) and Yusuke Oishi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a prediction program that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes simulating a flow of people based on a plurality of behavior intentions of people; evaluating the simulated flow based on observation data of the flow of people; and predicting the flow of people based on an evaluation result of t...