ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,842, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Business process classification apparatus, business process classification method and program" was invented by Saori Oji (Tokyo) and Shinobu Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A business process classification device supports improvement in efficiency of analysis of a business process, since the business process classification device includes: a feature amount acquisition unit that acquires from each of a plurality of types of business processes a plurality of feature amounts related to a structure of each of the plurality of types of business processes; and a clusteri...