ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,753, issued on July 14, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information processing system managing membership of group of plurality of terminals based on detecting linkage mark and executing linakage application" was invented by Naohisa Takamizawa (Kyoto, Japan), Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshinori Okada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Linkage of application software among a plurality of information processing terminals is easily and conveniently realized. An information processing system for executing application software by a plurality of information processing terminals in linkage with each other,...