ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,120, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system and autonomous system" was invented by Kanako Esaki (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Mizuno (Tokyo) and Tadayuki Matsumura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing system for an autonomous system, the information processing system obtaining observation sensor data in the autonomous system and a target of the autonomous system, and including: an agent management unit that stores and manages an agent group; an attention unit configured to select an agent from the agent group based on the target; and an agent cooperation unit...