Nikon Assigned Patent

Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,268,406) developed by Sugimura, Takeaki, Yokohama, Japan, Kazami, Kazuyuki, Tokyo, Japan, Tanaka, Atsushi, Fuchu, Japan, Tsuboi, Soichiro, Yoshioka, Genshi, Tokyo, Japan, and Yuki, Daisuke, Yokohama, Japan, for “information storage device, information storage system, and information storage control program.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An information storage device is a device that communicates over a network with another device that is used by another user different from an own user who uses an own device, and includes a storage unit including a first storage area available to the own user and a second storage area available to the other user, an information output unit that outputs information of the own user stored in the first storage area to the other device over the network, an information writing unit that stores information of the other user output by the other device over the network, in the second storage area, and a use control unit that controls whether the second storage area is available to the own user on the basis of an instruction of the other user.”

The patent application was filed on December 16, 2016 (15/382,417).