ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,894, issued on March 24, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Method of competition scoring, non-transitory computer readable recording medium, and competition scoring apparatus" was invented by Hirohisa Naito (Fuchu, Japan) and Junko Ozaki (Ota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display method for outputting a result of scoring for a performance of a scoring competition, the display method includes obtaining input information regarding to the scoring competition, obtaining a recognition result of a plurality of elements included in the performance, determining a difficulty level of each of the plurality of elements...