ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,448, issued on April 8, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Data processing method, data processing apparatus, and recording medium with data processing program recorded thereon" was invented by Hideji Naohara (Kyoto, Japan), Tomonori Fujiwara (Kyoto, Japan), Yumiko Hirato (Kyoto, Japan) and Atsushi Sonoda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method includes a step of obtaining evaluated values of the time-series data by comparing the time-series data with reference data, a step of classifying the evaluated values into a plurality of levels, a step of displaying an evaluation result scr...