ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,417, issued on April 14, was assigned to RESONAC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Document search device, document search system, document search program, and document search method" was invented by Takuya Minami (Tokyo) and Yoshishige Okuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document search device includes an input reception unit configured to receive an input of a keyword of a document search, a document search unit configured to acquire, from a document, a hit character string matching a character string in which a portion of characters of the keyword is replaced with a wildcard, and character strings before and after the hit character strin...