ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,619, issued on June 17, was assigned to FSAS Technologies Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).
"Operation information management method and information processing" was invented by Kenji Nitta (Yamato, Japan), Kenji Itoh (Machida, Japan), Kazuhiro Nakano (Kawasaki, Japan), Anjie Zhang (Ota, Japan), Toshihiro Kai (Souka, Japan), Kota Iriguchi (Kawasaki, Japan), Naoyuki Yoshimi (Kawasaki, Japan), Mai Izawa (Ota, Japan), Kenichi Takayanagi (Kawasaki, Japan) and Takayuki Nakamura (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storing unit stores therein contract information indicating, with respect to each of a plurality of devices rented to a user...