ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,786, issued on July 28, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Seiji Suzuki (Tokyo), Shinichi Iriya (Tokyo), Katsuji Miyazawa (Tokyo) and Satoshi Akagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus for this determination includes processing circuitry configured to acquire feature information about a vehicle or a person in a parking lot, e.g., information on at least one feature among a color, an orientation, a location...