ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,088, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing apparatus, processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Norihito Oi (Tokyo), Tooru Iwamoto (Tokyo), Takuroh Kashima (Tokyo) and Tomoaki Makino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including a prediction information acquisition unit (11) that acquires remaining-fuel-amount prediction information indicating a change in a predicted value of a remaining amount of fuel in a vehicle while traveling based on a transport plan is performed and being produced based on a prediction model, an...