ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,208, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Method for graphically providing status information of a data processing system" was invented by Pascal A.M.S. Hagens (Venlo, Netherlands) and Jeroen Blom (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for graphically providing status information of a data processing system having a plurality of disjunct system statuses, wherein the data processing system is monitored during a predetermined period of time. A donut chart is created which has an inner hole region linked to the one particular system status and an outer regi...