ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,022, issued on March 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data creation method and data creation program" was invented by Yukinori Nishiyama (Saitama, Japan), Yuya Nishio (Saitama, Japan), Tetsu Wada (Saitama, Japan) and Koichi Tanaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a data creation method for efficiently performing volume adjustment of a sound of each subject according to a state of each of a plurality of subjects. A data creation method includes: an association step (step S10 and step S11) of associating the microphone with each subject possessing each of the microphones; a recording step (s...