ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,137, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing method, recording medium, node device, gateway device, manufacturing system, method of manufacturing product" was invented by Kento Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes a plurality of node devices and a gateway device configured to communicate with the plurality of node devices. Each of the plurality of node devices is connected to a sensor configured to measure a state of a facility, and is configured to execute a measurement task. Each of the plurality of no...