ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,312, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Japan Steel Works Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing method, information processing apparatus, molding machine system and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" was invented by Mikio Furokawa (Tokyo), Jun Suzuki (Tokyo) and Takayuki Hirano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method for detecting conditions of a plurality of manufacturing devices respectively used by a plurality of entities includes acquiring sensor value data obtained by detecting physical quantities related to the manufacturing devices; individually storing collected sensor value ...