ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,291, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing method, processing apparatus, and information processing system, and program" was invented by Masahiko Toyoshi (Tokyo), Kohei Urushido (Tokyo), Shinichiro Abe (Tokyo), Takuto Motoyama (Tokyo) and Masaki Handa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration is described that is capable of determining a target landing position of a drone according to a sentence indicating a landing position generated by a user. Aspects including identifying an object type of an object contained in a captured image of a camera mounted on a mobile body; sent...