US Patent Issued to NTT on March 24 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,471, issued on March 24, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program" was invented by Aki Hayashi (Musashino, Japan), Yuki Yokohata (Musashino, Japan), Kohei Mori (Musashino, Japan), Takahiro Hata (Musashino, Japan) and Kazuaki Obana (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a travel request acquisition unit that acquires travel request information for requesting travel permission of a specific road by a first vehicle, a number-of-vehicles acquisition unit that acquires a number of traveling vehicles indicating a numbe...