ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,638, issued on April 14, was assigned to MITANI SANGYO Co. LTD. (Kanazawa, Japan).

"Risk management system and risk management method" was invented by Yasushi Kiyoki (Tsukuba, Japan), Yukio Chen (Tsuchiura, Japan), Koichi Mori (Kanazawa, Japan), Toshiaki Fukabori (Kanazawa, Japan), Tomokazu Shigeri (Kanazawa, Japan) and Yoshikane Oda (Kanazawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A risk management system, which is a risk management system of upper layer system connected with a plurality of types of lower layer systems, includes an acquisition unit that acquires first sensing data acquired by a first lower layer system capable of ac...