USPTO Patent Grant: FRONTEO Information Processing System

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Published March 24th, 2026

Detected March 25th, 2026

Summary

The USPTO has granted patent US12586007B2 to FRONTEO, INC. for an information processing system and method. The patent covers a system that obtains supply chain networks, extracts subnetworks, determines complex vectors for processing nodes, and calculates similarity between nodes.

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted patent US12586007B2 to FRONTEO, INC. The patent, titled 'Information processing system and method of information processing,' was granted on March 24, 2026. It describes an information processing system designed to analyze supply chain networks. Key components include units for obtaining supply chain data, extracting subnetworks (upstream and downstream), determining complex vectors for processing target nodes, and calculating similarity between nodes based on these vectors.

This patent grant is primarily an intellectual property event and does not impose new regulatory obligations on businesses. However, companies operating in supply chain management, data analytics, or technology sectors may find the patented technology relevant to their operations or intellectual property strategies. The filing date for this patent was August 30, 2023, and it has 10 claims.

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Information processing system and method of information processing

Grant US12586007B2 Kind: B2 Mar 24, 2026

Assignee

FRONTEO, INC.

Inventors

Yuichi Kichikawa, Toru Hisamitsu

Abstract

An information processing system includes, a supply-chain-network obtaining unit configured to obtain a supply chain network in which a plurality of nodes each corresponding to one of a plurality of companies are connected together through links, a subnetwork extracting unit configured to extract a subnetwork including at least one of an upstream subnetwork and a downstream subnetwork, the upstream subnetwork including an upstream company that supplies the product to a company corresponding to a processing target node among the plurality of companies, the downstream subnetwork including a downstream company that is supplied with the product from the company corresponding to the processing target node, a vector obtaining unit configured to determine a complex vector representing the processing target node, and a similarity calculating unit configured to calculate a similarity between two of the plurality of nodes in accordance with the two complex vectors corresponding to the two nodes.