ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,196, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to EVALUATION INFORMATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information terminal, recording medium, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Chikako Shiramoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a life information system: a user specifies, in advance, a character string expressing an intent; a sentence relating to details of an article from purchase to consumption is received, the sentence having been input to an information terminal by means of speech or the like by the user in accordance with a rule for registering a nickname serving as a keyword for...