ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,962, issued on May 26, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Setting device, setting method, and setting program" was invented by Takayuki Fujiwara (Tokyo), Satoshi Nakatsukasa (Tokyo) and Yuta Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter setting device (20) includes a shared filter DB (21) having a shared filter information table (211) in which information of each shared filter is recorded and a shared filter application destination table (212) in which a transfer device of an application destination of each shared filter is recorded; a shared filter creation unit (22) for determining new creation of a shared filter or divers...