ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,049, issued on April 7, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, method of determining product, and computer-readable recording medium storing control program" was invented by Takahiro Kusunoki (Hino, Japan), Toshiaki Miyaki (Yokohama, Japan), Takashi Fujiwara (Koganei, Japan), Masahiro Yamaguchi (Tachikawa, Japan) and Toshiyuki Tsukahara (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes: an acquirer that acquires first information relating to an advertisement; a determiner that determines, based on the acquired first information, whether or not to create a p...