ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,310, issued on May 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, display method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program" was invented by Tingting Dong (Tokyo), Jianquan Liu (Tokyo), Daisuke Sugidomari (Tokyo), Taisuke Shimada (Tokyo) and Yusuke Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus capable of improving accuracy of search results. The information processing apparatus includes: a management unit that manages at least one object, an attribute by which the object is classified, and a certainty factor indicating a probability that the object has...