ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,484, issued on July 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Product management apparatus, product management method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Rina Tomita (Tokyo) and Yuji Tahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The acquisition unit (110) acquires target period information that can determine a first period. The first period is a period being a setting target of a preparation plan of a product cooked at a target store. The screen display unit (120) displays a first screen on a display. The first screen includes an input field of a preparation number of the product by a plurality of kinds of the products. ...