ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,684, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Yoshifumi Onishi (Tokyo), Koichi Nihei (Tokyo), Takanori Iwai (Tokyo), Akira Yamauchi (Tokyo) and Koichi Kawashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires patient information indicating a state of a patient who has visited a first institution or who has been examined by a person associated with the first institution; a determination unit that determines whether or not ...