US Patent Issued to CANON on July 1 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, production system, article manufacturing method and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,083, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, production system, article manufacturing method and storage medium" was invented by Kota Sakuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Kensuke Uehara (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinji Murakami (Tokyo) and Yoshiaki Hiraoka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a control portion configured to acquire difference information before and after a change of a flowchart when the flowchart has been changed and to output the flowchart into which the difference information is being applied."

The ...