US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on Sept. 16 for "Information processing device, information processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,482, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Toshiharu Kurisu (Tokyo) and Shin Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes an access means accessing a database recording a plurality of words indicating, for each of a plurality of objects, flavor or aroma of an object; a presenting means presenting to a user an object to be used from among a set of determined objects in order; a display control means for causing a display means to display a plurality of words obtained from the...