ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,187, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FRONTEO INC. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Toru Hisamitsu (Tokyo), Yuichi Kichikawa (Tokyo) and Kazumi Hasuko (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system analyzes an influence level for each of a plurality of higher nodes to which a particular one of a plurality of nodes is directly or indirectly linked based on at least one of the capital contribution ratios that is assigned to a path along which one of the capital investment relations from the particular ...