ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,153, issued on May 27, was assigned to FIXSTARS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing system" was invented by Hajime Otoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to divide targets into a plurality of units for each predetermined identifier, define a set of a first predetermined number of said units as a sub-block from each of the units for the plurality of units; encode the sub-block by predetermined conversion, and obtain a code; and use the code as a...