US Patent Issued to GUNZE on Dec. 16 for "Management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,464, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GUNZE Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Management system" was invented by Nobuhiro Watanabe (Moriyama, Japan) and Ibuki Shimazaki (Moriyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a management system including a first calculation unit, a second calculation unit, a storage unit, and a credit management unit. The first calculation unit calculates an increase amount of credit based on the purchase mass and the parameter representing the degree of reduction in environmental load in accordance with the purchase of plastic materials. The second calculation unit calculates a decrease amount of cr...