US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on May 27 for "Book search apparatus, book search database generation apparatus, book search method, book search database generation method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,298, issued on May 27, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Book search apparatus, book search database generation apparatus, book search method, book search database generation method, and program" was invented by Takashi Hattori (Tokyo), Tessei Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Sanae Fujita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an invention for efficiently searching for books used in training to reduce metathesis. A book search database storage unit 110 stores a book search database in which information identifying a book, information regarding a frequency of a proximity number for a mora character notatio...