Patents by Inventor Takehiro Watase

Takehiro Watase has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240144295
    Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to provide a method for efficiently managing greenhouse gas emissions, including the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions by business operators. One embodiment of this invention is a method for managing greenhouse gas emissions, comprising: determining information on energy consumption based on information input by a business terminal; calculating the amount of greenhouse gas emissions based on the information on the amount of energy used; receiving, from the business terminal, input regarding activity data concerning which product is to be allocated a predetermined percentage of the activity related to the energy usage; and processing to assign a percentage of the energy usage to each product based on the activity data input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kouhei NISHIWADA, Takehiro WATASE
  • Publication number: 20240037567
    Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to provide a method for efficiently managing greenhouse gas emissions, including the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions by business operators. One embodiment of the invention is a method for managing greenhouse gas emissions, wherein information regarding energy usage is determined based on input information by a business terminal, greenhouse gas emissions are calculated based on the information regarding usage, information regarding credits to offset the obtained greenhouse gas and record the information about the credits in a blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kouhei NISHIWADA, Takehiro WATASE
  • Publication number: 20240037568
    Abstract: A method of managing greenhouse gas emissions, according to one embodiment of this invention, comprises determining information regarding energy consumption based on information input by a business terminal of a first business; calculating the amount of greenhouse gas emissions based on the information on the amount of energy used; and managing the information on greenhouse gas emissions entered by a business terminal of a second business that is different from the first business as the greenhouse gas emissions of the first business.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kouhei NISHIWADA, Takehiro WATASE
  • Publication number: 20180268434
    Abstract: There is provided a coupon issue system and the like capable of issuing an attractive coupon to a turn-waiting visitor. When accepting new registration and receiving a request to issue a coupon from a management server 300, a coupon issue server 400 selects a coupon to be issued, based on new registration information and the like transmitted from the management server 300. The new registration information includes the number of persons for the reservation and a seat type, estimated waiting time and the like. The coupon issue server 400 transmits the selected coupon to a turn management terminal 100 of a corresponding store as coupon information. The coupon information received by the turn management terminal 100 is outputted by the printer 200 as a coupon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Takehiro Watase, Akinori Shintani
  • Publication number: 20180225596
    Abstract: In a turn management system (1000), whether or not input to an input device (115) is not performed for a predetermined period of time is determined, and a standby screen is displayed when it is determined that the input to the input device (115) is not performed for the predetermined period of time. At the time, a first standby screen is displayed when there is turn waiting in a waiting list, and a second standby screen is displayed when there is no turn waiting in the waiting list. Thus, unneeded issuance of a numbered ticket can be suppressed, and operation interruptions of a worker or the like can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Watase, Akinori Shintani
  • Publication number: 20180174077
    Abstract: By a scroll operation, at a lower part of a waiting list L1, customers of reception numbers “9”-“11” not displayed in FIG. 4A are displayed. At an upper part of the waiting list L1, an arousing alert AT1 (“there are customers waiting above” or the like) is displayed such that it is recognized that there are customers (specifically, the customers of reception numbers “1”-“3”) who are hidden outside the screen and are invisible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Takehiro Watase, Akinori Shintani