ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,291, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing apparatus, processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Fumiyuki Miyahara (Tokyo) and Mai Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a new technique for a teacher to recognize a tackling attitude of a student toward class is provided, the present invention provides a processing apparatus 100 including: an input word acquisition unit 101 that acquires an input word being a word input to each of a plurality of student terminals; a classification unit 102 that classifies the input words into a plurality of categories; and a first o...