ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,722, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus" was invented by Kei Watanabe (Tokyo), Daisuke Akihisa (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Oda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus comprises: a controller configured to evaluate largeness of a monitoring possible region that is a region that can be monitored by a predetermined security camera among a region included in a predetermined space on a basis of: structure information regarding a structure existing in the predetermined space; material information regarding a surface material of the structu...