US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 18 for "Retrieval apparatus, retrieval method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,508, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Retrieval apparatus, retrieval method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Tomoaki Tanaka (Tokyo), Norihiro Ide (Tokyo), Kouichi Ono (Tokyo), Tsukasa Kasuya (Tokyo), Aoi Uzuki (Tokyo), Yukiko Oka (Tokyo) and Masataka Nishida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a retrieval apparatus (10) including: a search condition acquisition unit (11) acquiring a search condition specifying a plurality of starting points; a selection unit (12) selecting, from among a plurality of preregistered facilities, one or a plurality of facilities to ...