ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,235, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).

"Management system and management method" was invented by Yoshiyasu Makino (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management system is a system for managing a processing facility, and includes a foreign substance detector for detecting whether a foreign substance is mixed in a product, and a management device capable of processing information on the foreign substance. The management device acquires the information on the foreign substance from the foreign substance detector, and acquires, based on the information on the foreign substance, information o...