ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,848, issued on July 8, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data processing system, data providing system, event information generating apparatus, data processing apparatus, data processing method and program" was invented by Shintaro Mizuno (Tokyo), Kenji Shimizu (Tokyo) and Masahisa Kawashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system includes an event information generating apparatus including generation means that receives data collected from a plurality of terminals, generates event information from the data, and transmits the generated event information to a broker device. The event ...