US Patent Issued to NTT on March 24 for "Word evaluation value acquisition method, apparatus and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,264, issued on March 24, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Word evaluation value acquisition method, apparatus and program" was invented by Yoshinari Shirai (Tokyo), Yasue Kishino (Tokyo), Sanae Fujita (Tokyo) and Tessei Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A word evaluation value acquisition method, including a document display step in which a display unit 300 displays a document composed of a plurality of sentences, a word selection reception step in which an input unit 200 receives selection of a word included in the document, a word evaluation reception step in which the input unit 200 receives an evaluation result i...