ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,721, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Storage medium, consideration distribution method, and information management device" was invented by Takeshi Miyamae (Kawasaki, Japan) and Shenbin Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage medium storing an information management program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes acquiring a first cumulative consideration amount from a most upstream process in a plurality of processes included in a supply chain to a first process; generating a consideration amount commitment by concealing the first cumulative consideration amount by ...