ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,927, issued on June 17, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information search system" was invented by Yusuke Takemura (Tokyo), Akira Kariya (Tokyo), Satoshi Kuwabara (Tokyo), Ayaka Eto (Tokyo), Nobuyuki Morooka (Tokyo), Daiki Shigeoka (Tokyo), Shudo Takenaka (Tokyo) and Daigo Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information search system, including: a database (12); a query sentence acceptance unit (26) that accepts a query sentence; an inputted search keyword extractor (44) that extracts an inputted search keyword from the query sentence; a shared keyword dictionary (30) in which relevant keywords are registered in as...