ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,493, issued on March 31, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and storage medium" was invented by Naoya Sogi (Tokyo) and Makoto Terao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique that makes it possible, as evaluation of a control plan with respect to a control target, to evaluate a plan sequence while taking into consideration long-term influence. An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition section that acquires state information and a plan sequence, the state information indicating a state of at least one of a control target and an environment, and the plan sequence ...