ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,981, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo) and OPTOS PLC (Dunfermline Fife, Great Britain).
"Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing program, and information processing method" was invented by Devin Soares (Marlborough, Mass.), Branden Coleman (Marlborough, Mass.), Bradley Yates (Marlborough, Mass.) and Naoyuki Kawachi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus that is communicably connected with another information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprises: a processor configured to execute a program; and a stor...