ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,956, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FRONTEO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Pathway analysis apparatus, pathway analysis method, and pathway analysis program" was invented by Kazumi Hayashi (Tokyo), Hiroyoshi Toyoshiba (Tokyo), Yuna Takagi (Tokyo), Miyuki Sakai (Tokyo), Makoto Miyamoto (Tokyo) and Hironori Mitsuke (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The partial common path detection unit 12 configured to detect a common part exclusively in a portion between a start point and an end point of a path among a plurality of disease pathways representing, as a route map, an intermolecular interaction of related molecules with respect to a disease for ...