ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,081, issued on April 15, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, computer-readable recording medium, and information processing system" was invented by Tomoaki Eto (Tokyo), Sawako Ishihara (Tokyo), Hayato Waki (Tokyo) and Ken Muramatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit that generates an operation log of an operation target device operated by a user, by identifying an operation content of the operation target device, based on a captured image obtained by capturing an image of the operation target...