ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,713, issued on March 4, was assigned to NTT COMMUNICATIONS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, setting method, and setting program for graphically defining a flow of a series of processes" was invented by Koji Ito (Kawasaki, Japan) and Keisuke Kiritoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device that displays, on a screen, cards associated with a series of respective processes performed on data and that defines a flow of the series of processes by connecting the cards by first lines, the information processing device includes processing circuitry configured to receive an operation performed by a...