ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,737, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, article manufacturing system, and article manufacturing method" was invented by Yoshihiro Kawauchi (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 first processing data indicating a result of substrate processing performed by a first substrate processing apparatus, and second processing data indicating a result of substrate processing performed by a second substrate processing apparatus different from the...