ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,996, issued on April 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Yuka Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoto Yamasaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naohiro Sawata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: associate each of manufacturing processes of one of products with one of job elements each representing a detail of a job; and display the job elements in a schedule setting area of a screen, and in response to selection of ...