ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,010, issued on April 29, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing method, non-transitory computer readable medium having recorded thereon program, and information processing device" was invented by Nobuo Hara (Osaka, Japan), Mikio Ushioda (Osaka, Japan) and Akihisa Nakahashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method includes: creating a first table by an experimental design method, calculating a first response surface using the first table, setting a fourth level value for a first control factor when the first response surface does n...