ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,618, issued on July 22, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, information processing program, and information processing system" was invented by Momotaro Ishikawa (Tokyo), Toshihide Tadaki (Tokyo), Takeyuki Abe (Tokyo), Kohma Hayashi (Tokyo), Kyoko Negishi (Tokyo) and Ryoko Sendoda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes: an acquirer that acquires observation results obtained by image-capturing a plurality of target objects under predetermined observation conditions; and a display controller that highlights, in a display image relate...