ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,398, issued on April 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Visualization device, visualization method and visualization program" was invented by Tetsuya Shioda (Musashino, Japan), Machiko Toyoda (Musashino, Japan), Kazuki Adachi (Musashino, Japan) and Masakuni Ishii (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a score representing a relationship between features of input data, an analysis unit analyzes the importance of each feature. An extraction unit extracts a combination of features in which the score satisfies a predetermined condition. A specification unit specifies a visualization system for the combin...