ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,360, issued on March 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Learning support apparatus for creating multiple-choice quiz" was invented by Shuichi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Ando (Tokyo), Mitsugu Kamizuru (Shizuoka, Japan), Masaki Yoshikoshi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Ayaka Asano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device stores failures and lessons. A processor accepts input of text serving as a question sentence in a multiple-choice quiz, computes an evaluation value for a consistency between the text and each of lessons stored in the storage device, and determines one lesson to serve as a correct option in the multip...