ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,187, issued on March 17, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Information-processing device, information-processing method and information-processing program" was invented by Mitsuru Nakazawa (Tokyo) and Bjorn Stenger (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information-processing device for extracting an important image from target information including images and a text, the information-processing device including: a CPU; and a memory storing instructions for causing the information-processing device, when executed by the CPU, to: determine a category indicating an attribute of each image; extract a category fo...