Patente para um sistema contábil

Segundo o US FEd News [Patent No. 7,529,699 Issued on May 5, Assigned to Panasonic for Accounting System (Japanese Inventors)] uma patente de um sistema contábil foi concedida para três japoneses (Satoshi Fuse, Hiroshi Tarewaki e Fumio Kunimitsu) que desenvolveram um sistema contábil. Os inventores estão vinculados a Panasonic.

O resumo da U.S. Patent & Trademark Office é o seguinte:

"An accounting system structured from a biller accounting device connected to a database DB1 and a billee accounting device. Biller accounting device sequentially receives input of billing data, some of which may be for appropriation in consolidated accounting, enters received billing data in database DB1, extracts any billing data not for appropriation from received billing data, outputs extracted billing data to billee accounting device, and excludes specified billing data entered in database DB1 from being appropriated. Billee accounting device receives outputted billing data and notifies biller accounting device of the receipt, and biller accounting device excludes, as the specified billing data, billing data whose receipt is notified."