ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,269, issued on May 19, was assigned to PIONEER Corp. (Tokyo) and PIONEER SMART SENSING INNOVATIONS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, control method, program, and storage medium" was invented by Masahiro Kato (Kawagoe, Japan), Takeshi Koda (Kawagoe, Japan), Masahiro X Kato (Kawagoe, Japan), Akira Gotoda (Kawagoe, Japan) and Kunio Shiratori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The controller 13 of the information processing device 1 is configured to acquire measurement data of a feature measured by a lidar 3 provided on a ship and measurement data of a water surface. In addition, the controllers 13 is configured to acquire...