ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,131, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to IRYOU JYOUHOU GIJYUTU KENKYUSHO Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Knowledge management system" was invented by Shinkichi Himeno (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knowledge management system includes a knowledge entry management configured to manage at least one knowledge entry in recording or managing knowledge, a knowledge entry attribute description management configured to record and manage an attribute description about the at least one knowledge entry. A term used in the attribute description is another knowledge entry or an attribute description of the other knowledge entry and a re...