US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on March 4 for "Data input device and storage medium for storing instructions" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,217, issued on March 4, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Data input device and storage medium for storing instructions" was invented by Hiroyuki Miyamoto (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data input device includes: a controller that: acquires position data indicating position coordinates of a facility, estimates, based on the position data, one or more facility candidates, and causes a display to display an input screen showing the estimated one or more facility candidates as options for selection by a user, and creates inspection data relating to gas inspection of the one or more facility candidates selecte...