ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,852, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and information processing method" was invented by Yuya Hirayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire sound data representing a sound emitted by an apparatus; generate plural pieces of section sound data by dividing the sound data into sections where detection of words is not possible; and transmit specific section sound data among the plural pieces of section sound data, a...