ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,878, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TRUST TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Programming devices and programs for creating and editing programs used for image processing" was invented by Ryuichirou Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programming device which is capable of creating a program, typified by an image processing algorithm, and of easily validating a program being edited, and a program are provided. The programming device edits a program by arranging icons of units, the unit representing a processing unit, and linking the units on an editing screen in response to a user operation. The programming device executes...