US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 2 for "Document management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,056, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Document management system" was invented by Hiroyasu Yamashita (Toyota, Japan), Kazuya Matsumoto (Nagoya, Japan) and Harufumi Muto (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry of a document management system calculates a first similarity between a block in a first level of a first document and a block in a second level of a second document, calculates a similarity between a block in a second level of the first document and a block in a second level of the second document as a second similarity, calculates a combined similarity based on ...