ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,169, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Extraction device, extraction method, and extraction program" was invented by Hidetaka Koya (Musashino, Japan) and Akira Kataoka (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extraction device includes processing circuitry configured to create an operation pattern using a state of an operation result and an order of the state, acquire an operation log, and extract the operation pattern included in the acquired operation log."

The patent was filed on Dec. 14, 2021, under Application No. 18/718,333.

*For further information, including images, charts and tables, please v...