ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,344, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Question generation apparatus, question generation method, and recording medium for AI-assisted decision making" was invented by Kosuke Akimoto (Tokyo) and Kunihiro Takeoka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one processor included in a question generation apparatus carries out: an acquiring process of acquiring a plurality of character strings and pieces of text; a question generating process of generating, for each of the plurality of character strings, a question an answer to which is that character string; an ambiguity judging process of judging, for each of...