ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,164, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CADDi Inc. (Tokyo).

"Drawing search device, drawing database construction device, drawing search system, drawing search method, and recording medium" was invented by Yushiro Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drawing search server specifies an arrangement of plural boxes existing in a title field title field existing in target drawing data. The drawing search server executes character recognition processing on each character string existing at each position in the title field existing in the target drawing data. Based on the character recognition result and the arrangement of the plur...