ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,820, issued on July 14, was assigned to ADVANTEST Corp. (Tokyo).

"Determination apparatus, test system, determination method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Kosuke Ikeda (Saitama, Japan) and Hajime Sugimura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a determination apparatus including: a result acquisition unit configured to acquire test results of tests on a plurality of items which are performed on a device under measurement; and a first determination unit configured to determine whether to retest a device under measurement that has failed the test, in which the first determination unit is confi...