ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,773, issued on May 20, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information management device and information management method for classifying event occurred in equipment and generating maintenance information" was invented by Takatoshi Katahata (Kizugawa, Japan), Reiko Hattori (Kyoto, Japan), Yuya Ota (Kyotanabe, Japan) and Yuki Hirohashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information management device includes: a first data storage unit which stores first data relating to at least one of data on equipment and operation behavior data concerning the equipment up to occurrence of an event; an event information genera...