[Notice of Patent Registration] Business Succession Support System for Local Governments (Patent No. 7678559) - Realizing a Unique Succession Support Model based on 'Region' x 'Succession Pattern'

Cocohore Japan Inc. (CEO: Katsutoshi Asai, Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture), which operates the business succession version of a vacant house bank 'Nihon Keigyo Bank (https://keigyo.jp/)' that solves successor issues for regional industries often excluded from M&A targets in cooperation with local governments, announces that its 'Business Succession Support System' designed to assist regional business succession has been registered as Patent No. 7678559.

While this patent was registered on May 8, 2025, we are taking this opportunity to announce it once again.

Patent Gazette: https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/c1801/PU/JP-7678559/15/ja

Overview of the Patent

* The image below is a conceptual diagram. For the technical scope of the patented invention, please refer to the claims and the drawings attached to the application (https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/c1801/PU/JP-7678559/15/ja).

Conceptual diagram of Nihon Keigyo Bank's unique 'Business Succession Support System (Patent No. 7678559)'

This patent relates to an information processing system that accumulates business succession project information across multiple regions and extracts and displays projects matching the user's conditions based on 'region' and 'succession pattern'.

While traditional business succession services struggled to provide optimal matching for diverse succession needs, this patent realizes a matching mechanism tailored to the realities of small-scale regional industries.

Features

1. Classification by Succession Pattern Classifies projects according to diverse succession methods such as successor recruitment, apprentice/intern, side job/concurrent work, and business transfer.

2. Management and Accumulation of Business Succession Projects on a Regional Basis Manages and accumulates business succession projects from multiple regions on a region-by-region basis.

3. Matching by Extracting and Presenting Projects Based on Conditions Extracts, displays, and matches the optimal projects according to the conditions (region, succession pattern) selected by the user.