ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,306, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and sensing system" was invented by Yuusuke Kawamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazutoshi Kitano (Kanagawa, Japan), Kousuke Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeshi Kubota (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first recognition unit (122) that performs recognition processing based on a point group output by a photodetection distance measurement unit (11), and outputs three-dimensional recognition inform...