ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,306, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information providing device, information providing method, and recording medium" was invented by Fusataka Kuniyoshi (Tokyo) and Jun Ozawa (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information providing device includes: an extractor that extracts identification information for identifying each of multiple materials and property values of each material from at least one piece of document information; a deriver that derives a confidence level for the property values of each material on the basis of a similarity of the property values between the mate...