Murata Manufacturing Assigned Patent

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,270,856) developed by Nozawa, Nobuyuki, Ikeda, Chiho, and Watanabe, Takahiro, Kyoto, Japan, for an “information storage system and information storage method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An information storage system and an information storage method allow necessary information to be stored in the proper amount with a simple operation for people to share the information. The system includes an input unit including a plurality of press-type switches each of which accepts input for an on-signal or an off-signal and a data server storing pieces of identification information each identifying a corresponding one of the switches and messages in association with each other and outputs, in response to input accepted by each of the switches, a corresponding one of the messages. The input unit transmits an on-signal or an off-signal and a piece of identification information to the data server. The data server receives the on-signal or the off-signal and the piece of identification information and extracts and outputs a message associated with the piece of identification information received together with the on-signal.”

The patent application was filed on October 28, 2015 (14/925,049).