ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,409, issued on April 14, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information search system" was invented by Yusuke Takemura (Tokyo), Akira Kariya (Tokyo), Satoshi Kuwabara (Tokyo), Ayaka Eto (Tokyo), Nobuyuki Morooka (Tokyo), Daiki Shigeoka (Tokyo), Shudo Takenaka (Tokyo) and Daigo Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information search system by which high-speed search is possible commonly used across a plurality of districts, the system including: a database (12) that stores a plurality of pieces of information that are text-searchable; a query sentence acceptance unit (26) that accepts a query sentence; an i...