US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN GROUP on March 17 for "Collection device, collection method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,132, issued on March 17, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Collection device, collection method, and recording medium" was invented by Tadashi Nakamura (Tokyo), Anshul Mohil (Tokyo), Alexey Besedin (Tokyo) and Josue Nzajyayo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collection device includes a service record acquirer that acquires a service record from a service database related to a service to be processed; and a user record updater that updates, based on the acquired service record, the user record. Upon starting of updating processing for updating the user record, the user record updater aggregates a remaining work amou...