ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,605, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system and information processing method" was invented by Takashi Oshima (Tokyo), Norikatsu Takaura (Tokyo), Masanao Yamaoka (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Sasago (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, provided is an information processing system including a parent device and a plurality of child devices. The child device constitutes at least a portion of at least one device selected from a function approximator and an annealing machine, each of the parent devices and the plurality of child devices include a communication interf...