ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,984, issued on April 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Kazuya Matsuo (Musashino, Japan), Masaru Takagi (Musashino, Japan), Ryota Nakada (Musashino, Japan) and Koya Mori (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device 1 of the present embodiment includes a sensor data collection unit 12 configured to receive sensor data from a sensor device 4, a priority setting unit 13 configured to set, when the sensor data is received, a priority for the sensor data based on a surrounding situation of the sensor device ...