ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,567, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FRONTEO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information search apparatus, information search method, and information search program" was invented by Hiroyoshi Toyoshiba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Included is a reference mark display unit 13 that specifies search target feature vectors characterizing arbitrary input search targets or relevant element feature vectors characterizing arbitrary input relevant elements, and displays a predetermined reference mark at a corresponding position on a 2D map based on coordinate information based on the specified feature vectors. By displaying a 2D map in which a refer...