ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,742, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Program, information processing device, and information processing method" was invented by Yasuyuki Honma (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoyuki Maeda (Odawara, Japan) and Takayuki Uchida (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium, an information processing device, and an information processing method that causes a computer processor to execute a process that includes: outputting a first question by voice; receiving an answer to the first question from a subject; outputting a second question by text; receiving an answer to the second que...