ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,672, issued on July 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Yasufumi Hirakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to execute the instructions to acquire image data of a predetermined space captured by a camera, generate measurement data including a person-to-person distance between persons included in the image data, set space data about a size of the space, determine whether a state of...