ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,271, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Information processing system and information processing method" was invented by Takehiko Nagano (Tokyo) and Hidetoshi Teraoka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system obtains information on parts embedded in a final product across a range of companies, comprising: a product life cycle management system, used by a manufacturing company manufacturing a final product by embedding parts operated by software, for managing information on the final product and the parts and the range of disclosure of data relating to software contracted between the manufacturing company...