ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,900, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device" was invented by Akinari Sakai (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Tetsuya Yamaguchi (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Takuya Izumisawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Yusuke Nakamura (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nudge recommendation system includes a verification group storage unit configured to store a verification group management table, a user information storage unit configured to store a user management table, a user nudge storage unit configured to store a user nudge definition table, a nudge changing unit configured to perform changing recomme...