ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,229, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Toshiki Kashiwakura (Ota-ku, Japan), Ai Miyata (Sakai, Japan), Kotaro Hirose (Nisshin, Japan), Sho Minagawa (Nisshin, Japan), Yuki Uchida (Iwakura, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Okada (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus configured to determine a tour schedule around a facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to determine a tour time at a tour spot in the tour schedule, based on biol...