ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,077, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Assistance information management system" was invented by Yuki Kamiya (Toyoake, Japan), Takehiro Hiraoka (Chiryu, Japan), Satoshi Shimizu (Chiryu, Japan) and Ryu Takahashi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistance information management system including a usage record data storage section, an assistance record data storage section, an association section, and a presentation section. The usage record data storage section is configured to store usage record data in which usage information on use of an assistance device is recorded in association w...