US Patent Issued to CANON on March 24 for "Process management system, method and information processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,900, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Process management system, method and information processing apparatus" was invented by Yuki Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshifumi Kitamura (Shizuoka, Japan), Junna Takase (Shizuoka, Japan), Yasuhiro Tomioka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yasuhiro Shimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process management system includes a management unit that manages section data that defines sections in a real space and process data that indicates an expected location, from among the sections, in which a management target is to be positioned at the time of completing a work pro...