ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,829, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and moving apparatus" was invented by IshwarPrakash Hebbar (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device of the present disclosure includes a ranger that detects a distance to an end part of a stage and detects a predetermined pattern provided on the stage, with infrared light, and an estimator that estimates a self-location on the basis of a detection result of the ranger."

The patent was filed on Jan. 31, 2022, under Application No. 18/551,036.

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