ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,034, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Vinayaraj Poliyapram (Tokyo), Jeremiah Anderson (Tokyo) and Mayank Bansal (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (1) includes: an acquisition unit (12) configured to acquire a satellite image; a first generation unit (13) configured to recursively predict and generate a first image representing a distribution of population values with respect to the satellite image, through machine learning, using the sate...