US Patent Issued to CASIO COMPUTER on Dec. 16 for "Tonal language dictionary search device, tonal language dictionary search method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program readable by a computer of a tonal language dictionary search device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,328, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tonal language dictionary search device, tonal language dictionary search method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program readable by a computer of a tonal language dictionary search device" was invented by Risa Sudo (Hamura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a CPU generates, based on a tone-marked pinyin search character string containing a wildcard "?" and acquired from a communication terminal, a tone-number-added pinyin search character string for wildcard search in which "0" is added to...