US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on April 8 for "Maintenance support system and maintenance support method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,490, issued on April 8, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Maintenance support system and maintenance support method" was invented by Sou Miyazaki (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroyo Tanaka (Koto Tokyo, Japan), Kazuhiro Ogura (Hiratsuka Kanagawa, Japan), Masaki Narahashi (Shinagawa Tokyo, Japan) and Satoshi Oyama (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance support system includes a network interface, a memory, and a processor configured to, upon receipt of first information indicating a status of a first apparatus via the network interface, store the first information in the memory, upon receipt of secon...