ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,698, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Yuan Luo (Tokyo) and Kosuke Nishihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an information processing device, a sickbed information acquisition means acquires sickbed information concerning use states of sickbeds in each hospital. A patient information acquisition means acquires patient information concerning patients of hospitals. A facility information acquisition means acquires facility information concerning use states of facilities of each hospital. A shift information...