ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,513, issued on May 12, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Ryo Kawai (Tokyo), Noboru Yoshida (Tokyo), Tingting Dong (Tokyo), Satoshi Yamazaki (Tokyo), Jianquan Liu (Tokyo), Naoki Shindou (Tokyo), Karen Stephen (Tokyo), Yuta Namiki (Tokyo) and Youhei Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image captured at a site where a trouble happens; an information generation unit (12) that detects a pe...