ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,593, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Sakiko Kawai (Musashino, Japan), Keiichiro Kashiwagi (Musashino, Japan) and Shoko Katayama (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module generation basis includes: a data catalog configured to retain schema information of data as a catalog; a function catalog configured to retain input/output information of functions as a catalog; a management unit configured to manage a data conversion module that outputs data in a format indicated by the schema information of the data, ...