US Patent Issued to MIZUHO RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 8 for "Searching system, searching method, and searching program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,839, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MIZUHO RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Searching system, searching method, and searching program" was invented by Takeshi Nagata (Tokyo), Toshio Kasama (Tokyo), Hidemasa Maekawa (Tokyo), Masayoshi Shimomoto (Tokyo), Toru Hagiwara (Tokyo), Hiromitsu Tomozawa (Tokyo) and Misato Tsuchiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit outputs, to the user terminal, a first item including a first component value in a plurality of principal components composing items, and a plurality of item candidates including component values that are different from the first component value. The cont...