ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,899, issued on May 12, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Document search system and document search method" was invented by Kazuki Higashi (Atsugi, Japan) and Junpei Momo (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Highly accurate document search, especially intellectual property-related document search, is achieved with a simple input method. A processing portion has a function of generating text analysis data from text data input to an input portion; a function of extracting a search word from words included in the text analysis data; and a function of generating first search data from ...