US Patent Issued to OMRON on May 6 for "Character input device, character input method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a character input program for obtaining a first character string, extracting similar characters and generating second character string with replacement characters and outputting conversion candidates" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,597, issued on May 6, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Character input device, character input method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a character input program for obtaining a first character string, extracting similar characters and generating second character string with replacement characters and outputting conversion candidates" was invented by Takeshi Katayama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first character string obtainment unit according to one or more embodiments may obtain a first character string in response to an input character string that has been input. A similar c...