ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,011, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Server" was invented by Hiroyuki Yamada (Tokyo), Akira Arai (Tokyo) and Taro Morioka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server includes means for receiving a request for conversion from a first electronic value into a second electronic value from a user's terminal via a network, means for receiving an investment instruction to invest in the second electronic value obtained by the conversion from the user's terminal via the network, holding means for holding information regarding a type of merchandise corresponding to the second electronic value and a...