ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,878, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Yasuto Hoshi (Tokyo), Daisuke Miyashita (Kawasaki, Japan) and Jun Deguchi (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes: an interface circuit configured to receive first data items respectively relating to documents and a second data item relating to a question; and a processor configured to process the first and second data items, wherein the processor is configured to: extract first named entities respectively from the first data ite...