ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,424, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Charged particle beam apparatus and report creation method" was invented by Ryo Komatsuzaki (Tokyo), Shuntaro Ito (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Chiba (Tokyo), Takashi Shidara (Tokyo), Yoshinobu Hoshino (Tokyo) and Hirofumi Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input and output device includes: an instruction analysis unit configured to generate a conversation document in which a conversation uttered by a user is converted into character string data and recognize, based on the conversation document, a conversation intention of the user including an instruction to an...