ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,192, issued on July 14, was assigned to ULTIMATRUST Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, program, and positioning method" was invented by Iwao Ozawa (Tokyo) and Futoshi Iinuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention accurately identifies the position of a moving object, such as an automobile. An information processing device comprises: a reference position acquisition unit which acquires reference position information indicating the position of an image capturing device; and a position inference unit which, on the basis of first position information indicating the current position of the image capturi...