ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,209, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, article manufacturing system, and article manufacturing method" was invented by Hiroaki Fujiwara (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information including a processing result of processing a substrate by a substrate processing apparatus configured to perform substrate processing at a first timing, event information about an event having occurred in the substrate processing apparatus at a second timing after the fi...