US Patent Issued to SmartNews on July 14 for "Information processing apparatus and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,312, issued on July 14, was assigned to SmartNews Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and program" was invented by Ken Suzuki (Tokyo) and Koichi Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a message display module which, when a predetermined event is predicted to occur at a set location of interest, displays a message indicating occurrence of the predetermined event and the time until the occurrence of the predetermined event. The location of interest may be set to a current position of the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus may also inclu...