ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,351, issued on July 22, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Conversion table generation device, conversion table generation method, and recording medium for decision making support" was invented by Shoujirou Moribe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion table generation device includes a similar word extraction unit and a conversion table generation unit. The similar word extraction unit is configured to extract similar words similar to first words, for each of the first words included in a word group used in a dialogue. The conversion table generation unit is configured to associate any one of the first words with the ex...