ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,751, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Knowledge extracting device and knowledge extraction method" was invented by Yuuki Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knowledge extracting device includes: a question input section which inputs a predetermined question; a question transmitting section which transmits the predetermined question and a new question generated by a question generating section to a respondent terminal; a response acquiring section which acquires a response to a question from the respondent terminal; a question generating section which generates a new question related to the respons...