ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,738, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MIZUHO BANK LTD. (Tokyo).

"Banking operation support system, banking operation support method, and banking operation support program" was invented by Machiko Hasegawa (Tokyo), Shinya Ide (Tokyo), Kyoji Kanemitsu (Tokyo), Tetsuya Kamijo (Tokyo) and Martin Tangel (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a system, a method, and a program of banking operation support for supporting execution of accurate and efficient banking operations. A control unit (21) of a support server (20) acquires external state information, a financial transaction condition, customer state information, and a fin...