ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,180, issued on March 17, was assigned to Datascientist Inc. (Tokyo).

"Evaluation support program, evaluation support method, and evaluation support device" was invented by Naoya Sakakibara (Tokyo), Shinji Arisawa (Tokyo) and Yuki Hirobe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In evaluating a trend of attracting visitors to a web site or a web page, it is difficult to quickly discriminate a search query group that contributes to attracting visitors and a search query group that does not contribute to attracting visitors for each segment. In addition, when a new web site or web page is constructed, it is difficult to easily grasp to whi...