ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,427, issued on May 12, was assigned to BAYER CROPSCIENCE K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processor for predicting a risk of pest damage to produce" was invented by Satoshi Ito (Tokyo), Asako Mori (Tokyo) and Takahiro Sassa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Problem To provide an information processor capable of effectively reducing a risk of pest damage to produce. Solution An information processor 10 predicts a risk of pest damage to produce, the information processor comprising: a prediction unit for predicting an effect of reducing the pest damage risk for each of a plurality of countermeasure candidates for changing at least one inf...