ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,734, issued on July 28, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Information processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Masashi Nishio (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuji Wada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Liheng Mo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: a distance measuring sensor which measures a distance to an object; a memory which temporarily stores distance information indicative of the distance measured by the distance measuring sensor; and a processor which executes processing based on the distance information. The processor performs person detection processin...