ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,454, issued on July 29, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).
"Data processing system, method, and program" was invented by Hiroyuki Maeomichi (Musashino, Japan) and Ikuo Yamasaki (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system according to an embodiment is a data processing system in which one or more application programs and one or more devices are connected to a database via a network, the system including a processor configured to: perform acceptance processing for accepting a request from the application programs or data from the devices; have a plurality of types of perpetuation...