ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,882, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Document comparison system" was invented by Hiroyasu Yamashita (Toyota, Japan), Yosuke Ueno (Nagoya, Japan) and Harufumi Muto (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document comparison system is provided. Processing circuitry determines that a specific heading of a first document corresponds to corresponding headings of a second document. The processing circuitry generates a combined body by combining corresponding bodies of the second document with each other. The processing circuitry compares a specific body of the first document with the combin...