ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,142, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, method, program, and information processing system for assisting in examination of image for printing" was invented by Katsuhiko Minoura (Tokyo), Motoki Horita (Tokyo), Takeshi Moriya (Tokyo) and Nagisa Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device for assisting in examination of an image for printing. The information processing device recognizes a character string and a non-character object included in the image for printing that has been input, determines a plurality of element regions each in...