ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,919, issued on July 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inspection assistance apparatus, inspection assistance method, and computer readable recording medium" was invented by Masahiro Kaji (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Ikemura (Tokyo), Shinichi Yoshitsune (Tokyo) and Kaori Takeuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection assistance apparatus 10 to improve the accuracy of detection of a specific article, comprising a first certainty degree output unit 11 for inputting, to a model, a transmission image obtained by irradiating an article to be inspected with electromagnetic waves, and outputting a first certainty degree indicating tha...